Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun, a leading newspaper of the DPRK, on Tuesday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a letter of thanks from the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.

- Successes are being made at various farms.

- The minister of State Security of the DPRK and his party left for Russia.

- A delegation of the Russian Ministry of the Interior arrived here.

- The Institute for American Studies of the DPRK Foreign Ministry released a memorandum disclosing the "America first" in the field of missile defense that leads to global strategic instability and imbalance of strength.

- An article says that the European Union is heightening the atmosphere of dangerous confrontation while engrossed in hostile policy toward Russia. -0-