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    President Kim Il Sung, who had unparalleled scientific far-seeing wisdom and mysterious vision as his gifted disposition, had a clear insight into the present and the distant future.

    Some day when he received a congratulatory group of Korean residents in Japan visiting the motherland on the occasion of the 36th founding anniversary of the DPRK, the President said that Asian people are intelligent, industrious and assiduous. He said to the following effect.

    …The Asian people were civilized in olden times. However, in modern times they are backward. The Indian scholars who had visited our country once said it to me like that. They said that the Asian people had been very civilized in the past, but now they are more lagged behind than the European people.

    The reason why the Asians fell behind the Europeans is that feudal forces were so strong in the Asian countries in the past. Because of it, these countries could not undergo the proper development of capitalism. While the European countries were making the bourgeois revolution, the Asian countries did not dare to do it due to the disturbance of obstinate feudal forces. In China, Jiang Yu Wei and many other scholars and politicians imitated the “Meiji Restoration” of Japan and tried to make the bourgeois revolution but failed by the pressure of feudal forces.

    Our country and several countries in Asia are now developing by leaps and bounds. Asian people are intelligent, and they are industrious, assiduous and inquisitive. They also have abundant underground resources. That is why the Asian countries can make rapid progress if they map out correct policies. I think next century will be the Asia-centered century if the Asian countries develop at the same speed as now.

     The President’s saying was far-sighted.

     It is clearly proved by the dazzling development of the Asian countries and by the change of world economic and strategic structure, entering the new century, the 21st century.