To unhesitatingly dedicate even one's life to the collective and comrades is a beautiful deed which can be displayed only by people whom President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il trained, the autograph said.

Ri's self-sacrificing spirit and the heroic end of his life will be always remembered by the Korean people as the spirit of the times, it noted.

Ri, who had worked at the farm with sincerity for nearly 20 years, died after saving three members of the farm at a moment when a huge mass of frozen earth was falling down while working with members of the sub-workteam in order to secure earth for sowing seed rice in cold-bed frames on Feb. 20.

Kim Jong Un sent an autograph, making Ri's noble self-sacrificing spirit and heroic end of his life shine forever.