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...lips and teeth." Over the years, says Bruce Klingner, a senior analyst at Washington's Heritage Foundation and a former deputy chief for the Koreas in the CIA's analysis section, "the talk in both capitals about the other has often been pretty scathing." Even during the Cold War, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father, would routinely play the Soviet Union and China off each other. But while China and North Korea have never been as close as the propaganda would have it, the two countries do have shared interests. It's how much weight to give those...
Many other Bosnians are growing accustomed to the resurgent Islamic faith around them. Nearly 15 years after the country's vicious war - in which an estimated 100,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed - its capital, Sarajevo, is experiencing a religious revival. The city's physical scars have mostly healed since the siege of the 1990s. Its shell-blasted walls have been replastered and the infamous Sniper Alley - named for the Serb gunmen who shot at those crossing the street - is now clogged with traffic. (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...
...while the war has begun to seem like far-off history, the city's spiritual renewal is happening every day. There are now hundreds of women dressed like Husic and her friends in Sarajevo, where such styles had long since yielded to Western fashion. Last year Sarajevo's city council launched an option of religious education for children in kindergarten; so far only Islam is on offer. The city's mosques are packed, including the huge King Fahd Mosque and cultural center, which Saudi Arabia built in 2000 - at a cost of about $12 million - and still maintains...
Though there is little talk of the war in Sarajevo today, religious leaders trace Bosnia's Islamic revival directly to the horrors people witnessed in the 1990s, when they were children. "This generation grew up overnight," says the country's Grand Mufti, Mustafa Efendi Ceric. "We had an entire generation asking, 'Does God exist?' And now we have a generation that is very religious." Husic and her friends bear that out. As young girls, they watched their hometown of Mostar become ripped apart as lifelong neighbors turned against each other in a spiral of ethnic enmity; two of the four...
...leading to social tension in the city. Last September, men chanting "Allahu akbar" attacked people as they were leaving the city's first gay festival; several were badly beaten. Human-rights activists in Bosnia argue that the city's multiethnic tradition has been undermined not just by the war, but also by the 1995 U.S.-brokered Bosnian peace deal, which established two separate administrations, one for Croats and Muslims, the other for Serbs. Although no official census has been taken since 1991, Sarajevo presents an increasingly Muslim face to the world. Thousands of Orthodox Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats fled...