People’s Athlete Kim Jong Su is afamous sportsman who won dozens of medals including eight golds at more than 30international games such as the Olympic Games, the World Shooting Championshipsand the Asian Games during his nearly 30-year playing career, thusdemonstrating the honour of Juche Korea.
As a pistol shooter of the then April25 Defence Sports Team, he made his international debut in the Military World Games, and displayed the most distinguished marksmanship inevery event and demonstrated the might of the revolutionary army, though he wasthe youngest participant and had little experience of the games.
He was honoured to be awarded a goldwatch under the loving care and trust of Chairman Kim Jong Il. Then he took part in the 13th Asian Games and took thefirst place in the team event of pistol shooting and won three gold medals.
He also triumphed in the centre-pistolshooting event of the 14th Asian Games and made a great contributionto the DPRK team’s success in the team event.
After winning the title of People’sAthlete, he made more strenuous efforts and bagged a gold in the air pistol shooting of the 10th Asian Shooting Confederation AsianShooting Championships and a bronze in the free pistol shooting event of the28th Olympic Games.
Afterwards, he took part in variousinternational games to exalt the honour of the country and fully demonstratehis ability as a competent pistol shooter.
Kim Jong Su was awarded Kim Jong Il’s citation and was honouredto take part in the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the founding of theWorkers’ Party of Korea and the 7th National Conference of Sportspersons and hada photograph taken with the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.
He is now working as a coach of theDefence Sports Club.
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