The new car bridge linking North Korea and Russia will be named after Soviet officer Yakov Novichenko, who saved DPRK founding leader Kim Il Sung from assassination by a pro-South Korean group, a Russian official announced on Thursday.

Russian Transport Minister Andrei Nikitin made the remarks at the East Economic Forum in Vladivostok, according to the state-run TASS News Agency, adding that Russia plans to open its new border crossing adjacent to the bridge “in the very near future.”

Novichenko jumped onto a grenade thrown by a member of the right-wing, pro-South Korean White Clothes Societyat Kim Il