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

- On the occasion of April 15, the greatest national auspicious holiday,

The respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un sent gifts to children of revolutionary schools and primary schools and other children across the country.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a message of greeting from the Mongolian president.

The participants in the international seminar on the Juche idea laid floral baskets before the statues of President

Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill.

Officials of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) laid a floral basket before a portrait of the President, a meeting of Koreans in Japan and a lecture of Chongryon took place.

A concert was given by the National Symphony Orchestra, the 33rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival goes on, April 15 was celebrated with splendor across the country, children's camping started at the Songdowon International Children's Camp and the DPRK embassy in Beijing hosted a reception.

- People moved to new houses at the Ryonghung Farm in Thaechon County of North Phyongan Province.

- DPRK wrestlers bagged gold medals at the 2024 Asian Wrestling Championship.

- The DPRK doctorate in socio-politics was conferred on a department head of the National Veterinary Academy in Vitebsk, Belarus.

- The 85th candlelight rally and demonstration took place in the puppet ROK in demand of impeachment of puppet Yoon Suk Yeol.

Rodong Sinmun

Participants in the 33rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival say it is their great honor to celebrate the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, a peerlessly great man, together with the people of the DPRK.

An article says the U.S. justifying the brutal genocide committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip is the top-class war criminal and the incarnation of evil manipulating the war criminals behind the scene.

Minju Joson

- Working people, service personnel, school youth and students laid floral baskets before the statues of the President and the Chairman. -0-