Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Thursday:

- On the occasion of the New Year 2025

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a congratulatory message from the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Senior officials of the Party and the government visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to pay high tribute to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Officials, working people, service personnel, school youth and children visited the statues of the President and the Chairman in different parts of the country.

Floral baskets were sent to the statues of the President and the Chairman on Mansu Hill here by overseas families of those related to the revolutionary activities of the President and foreign personages.

- Schoolchildren gave a performance to greet the New Year.

- The DPRK people are significantly greeting the New Year 2025.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article notes that the great era of Kim Jong Un is the one in which he brings a flower into bloom even on a rock for the good of the people.

- Successes have been made in various economic sectors and units for the new year.

- The South Hwanghae Provincial Sci-tech Library was inaugurated.

- Another article stresses that the great idea of era leads humanity to rosy future.

Minju Joson

- The DPRK foreign minister sent a congratulatory message to her Cuban counterpart. -0-