Pyongyang, February 18 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- Delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to pay high tribute to them.

- A ceremony of awarding certificate of delegate to the Ninth WPK Congress was held.

- Soldier-builders and youth shock brigade members, who performed labor feats in the construction of the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm, visited different places in Pyongyang.

- The 2026 National Ski Amateurs Contest was held on the occasion of the lunar New Year's Day.

- The lunar New Year's Day was greeted across the country.

- Koreans in Japan celebrated the birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il, the auspicious February holiday of the Korean nation.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article carries voices of the Pyongyang citizens who were blessed by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un during the inauguration ceremony of 10 000 flats at the fourth stage in the Hwasong area.

Minju Joson

- An article lauds Kim Jong Il as the peerlessly great man and elder statesman admired by the progressive mankind.

- Premier Pak Thae Song sent a message of greeting to the prime minister of the Republic of Serbia.

- The DPRK foreign minister sent greetings to her Serbian counterpart. -0-