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Press Review

Date: 16/05/2026 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

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

- Premier of the Cabinet Pak Thae Song made a field survey of various economic sectors.

- Jo Yong Won met a special envoy of To Lam, general secretary of the C.C., Communist Party of Vietnam and president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

- The 23rd May 21 Architectural Festival closed.

- Successes are being made in different units and regions.

- DPRK players won seven gold medals and set new world and Asian records in the 2026 Asian Weightlifting Championships.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article says that the political and ideological might is the one peculiar to our state.

- Young people in North Hwanghae Province volunteered for difficult and labor-consuming posts called by the Workers' Party of Korea.

- An article says that ever-worsening security environment in the Middle East is attributable to the Western persistent interference and estrangement moves and its biased policy of covering Israel.

Minju Joson

- An article says that it is only Ukrainians who suffer from the egotistical behavior of the West persistently pushing Ukraine into the reckless confrontation with Russia and from the Zelensky clique following it. -0-

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