When visiting Ri Su Bok Sunchon University of Chemical Engineering, Pak Song Il, a student of Munhwa Secondary School in Phyongsong City, South Phyongan Province told KCNA the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military maneuvers had turned the whole of south Korea into a powder-reeking theatre of war exercises and led the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war and that if the enemy started a war against the DPRK he would defend the country at the cost of his life as hero Ri Su Bok did in the past war.

The university, precursor of Sunchon Higher Middle School that is alma mater of the hero, has been visited by a large number of youth and students to learn from the lofty spirit of the young hero, who devoted himself to the fatherland without hesitation.

During the Fatherland Liberation War Ri Su Bok, 18, blocked the enemy's pillbox with his body to open the way to a charge for his unit in the Height 1,211 battle and died a heroic death.

On display in the Hero Hall of the university are several pieces of remains offering glimpses of his childhood and school days, a relief map of Height 1,211 and an oil painting portraying him rushing towards the enemy's pillbox.

Also seen in the hall is the famous poem he composed just before the battle.

The higher middle school was named after him in November Juche 44 (1955) and his statue erected on the campus in October 1957.