Ri also taught shooting sports to North Korea's future leader, Kim Jong-il. Ri later became his closest bodyguard.[2]
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^ abFischer, Paul (2016). A Kim Jong-Il Production: Kidnap, Torture, Murder... Making Movies North Korean-Style. London: Penguin Books. p. 46. ISBN978-0-241-97000-3.
^Panorama of the 1972 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1973. pp. 122–124.