Ri Yong-suk

Political career After the liberation of Korea, she became the chairwoman of the management committee of a cooperative farm in Yonsan County in North Hwanghae Province.

Later life and death She was awarded the Jubilee Medal "70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" on 6 May 2015 by Vladimir Putin and Jubilee Medal "75 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" on 6 May 2020.

Ri was on the funeral committees of Kim Chol-man, Ri Ul-sol, and Hwang Sun-hui.

She was awarded the Order of Kim Il Sung, Order of Kim Jong Il, and Hero of Labor, and also received a birthday spread sent from Kim Jong Un on the occasion of her 105th birthday.

Ri died in November 2021, at the age of 105. Kim Jong Un visited her grave later that same month at the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery in Mount Taesong on 15 November to lay a wreath.