Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Monday:

- Floral baskets were laid before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill on the occasion of the significant Day of the Sun, the greatest national holiday.

- Floral baskets were sent to the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill by international bodies, foreign political parties, organizations and personages, families of those related to the revolutionary activities of Kim Il Sung and Koreans in China.

- An editorial and an article praise the undying feats of the President.

- The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un received a letter form the participants in an international seminar on the Juche idea for independence, justice and future of humankind.

- On the occasion of the 112th birth anniversary of the President,

There took place a meeting of awarding Kim Il Sung Youth Honor Prize and Kim Il Sung Children Honor Prize, a joint national meeting of the Korean Children's Union organizations, an evening gala of youth and students and a display of fireworks and a performance of art groups of university students.

The Samjiyon Revolutionary Museum was inaugurated.

State commendations were awarded to workers, technicians and officials of the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, who have made distinguished merits in establishing a new type of Juche iron production system.

A ceremony for moving into new houses took place at the Taesong Vegetable Farm under the Pyongyang Municipal Rural Economy Committee.

An integrated experimental education house of Kim Chaek University of Technology was inaugurated.

An international seminar on the Juche idea on independence, justice and future of humankind took place in Pyongyang.

The 22nd Meeting of the Board of Directors of the International Institute of the Juche Idea took place.

The DPRK government hosted a reception in honor of the participants in the international seminar on the Juche idea.

The Chinese art troupe returned home.

Rodong Sinmun

Articles say that Kim Il Sung is highly praised by the world progressives.

Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, met with the participants in the international seminar on the Juche idea.

A meeting took place to mark the 60th founding anniversary of the Phophyong Revolutionary Museum.

Minju Joson

- An article deals with the growing worry about a new health crisis due to various epidemic diseases prevailing throughout the world. -0-

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