Pyongyang, October 8 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- There took place a ceremony for welcoming Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. (photos accompanied)

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un had talks with Comrade Thongloun Sisoulith. (photos accompanied)

- A meeting was held to present letters of loyalty to Kim Jong Un on the occasion of the 80th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

- Kim Jong Un received flower baskets and congratulatory letters from diplomatic envoys here.

- He received flower baskets from foreign personages.

- The co-presidents of the Republic of Nicaragua and organizations of overseas Koreans sent flower baskets to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill.

- Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, arrived here.

- A delegation of Chinese party and government will pay an official goodwill visit to the DPRK.

- On the occasion of the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK, a national book exhibition opened and photo exhibitions are going on in provinces, cities and counties.

- New houses were built at Sambong-ri and Unbong-ri of Phyongwon County, South Phyongan Province.

- DPRK player Ri Chong Song took the second place in the men's 79kg category of the 2025 International Weightlifting Federation World Championships.

- A congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan, the secretary general of the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council and the International Kim Jong Il Prize Council, families of those related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, a delegation of the Sandinist National Liberation Front and government of Nicaragua, a delegation of the Workers' Party of Mexico, a delegation of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, representatives of Brazilian parties, a delegation of the Islamic Coalition Party of Iran, the president of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, the chairwoman of the Women's International Democratic Federation and her party, the representative of the World Federation of Trade Unions, the Shanghai Art Troupe of China, a vice-director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea who will take part in an international seminar on the Juche idea, delegations and delegates of organizations for the study of the Juche idea in different countries and regions arrived here.

The 29th seminar of world political parties on building a new society took place in Mexico.

Rodong Sinmun

- The WPK Central Committee received flower baskets from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Party.

- Wang Yajun, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, in an article calls for carrying forward the traditional friendship and jointly building a beautiful future.

Minju Joson

- An article deals with the significant day when Chairman Kim Jong Il was elected general secretary of the WPK. -0-

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