Pyongyang, January 16 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Thursday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages and letters from different countries on the occasion of the New Year 2025.

- Articles say that various sectors and units of the national economy have turned out as one in the drive for increased production and patriotic struggle.

- Young people in South Hamgyong Province advanced into difficult and labor-consuming sectors of socialist construction.

- An article denounces Israel for perpetrating the massacre against civilians in disregard of international law.

Rodong Sinmun

- An editorial calls for dynamically displaying the fighting spirit of the DPRK by expanding the flames of miraculous increased production kindled at the Sangwon Cement Complex to the whole country.

- Farms are busy with preparations for this year’s farming.

- An article says that American-style democracy is, in essence, a jungle law and aggressive democracy that one superpower suppresses and dominates other countries at will.

Minju Joson

- A practical way of minimizing natural disasters has been established in different parts of the country.

- An article deals with different reality of the DPRK and capitalist countries in housing problem. -0-