Ri Kye Sun
President Kim Il Sung recollected that Ri Kye Sun’s braid of hair symbolizes faith of all the Korean women revolutionaries. Ri fought stubbornly believing in only the President even when her husband(Kim Il Hwan) was killed on a false charge of having involved in “Minsaengdan” and she was under suspicion of “Minsaengdan”.
Ri had lived in a valley in Antu County after Chechangzi guerrilla zone was dissolved. Ri was called by the President in summer of 1936. Ri joined the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army in autumn that year, leaving her mother-in-law and 2 year-old daug
Ri fulfilled her duties of sewing and cooking in the main unit. When she was curing her cold injuries at the field hospital of the Heixiazigou secret camp, Ri was not content to merely get treatment, but became nurse and cook on her own to take utmost care of the patients. Ri fought bravely against the enemy attacked the hospital by surprise, but she was captured. Even after being moved to a police station in Changbai County, Ri fought stubbornly braving the enemy’s cruel torture and conciliation.
Ri asked the enemy to gather residents in a school playground.
The enemy gathered the residents in the primary school playground in Changbai County and forced them to hear speech of a “converted” woman communist. Ri made the anti-Japanese words. She died a heroic death shouting “Long live General Kim Il Sung!” and “Long live the Korean revolution!”
Ri Kye Sun’s bust was erected in the Revolutionary Martyrs’ Cemetery on Mt Taesong on the occasion of the 30th founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea thanks to the benevolence of President Kim Il Sung.
Sariwon University of Education No. 1 is named after Ri Kye Sun.
