31.   Analysts say North Korea wants to shed its image as a pariah state and attract more international aid.

32.   By far the strongest reaction and most intemperate language came from Pakistan which asked that, like Iraq, India should be treated as a pariah state.

33.   Despite intense government propaganda in support of Milosevic, Serbs seem increasingly disillusioned with his policies, which led to the bombing and made Serbia a pariah state.

34.   For the first time, ministers from the ultra-nationalist Radical Party, whose policies have been instrumental in making the country an internationally isolated pariah state, were included.

35.   He accused Cuba of providing technology to pariah states that could help them develop biological weapons.

36.   He said the program should diminish the possibility of leakage of such weaponry to pariah states.

37.   His since-discarded nationalism made Serbia a pariah state, isolating it from the rest of the world.

38.   Iranians have tired of being cast as a pariah state by the United States and the West.

39.   It was not long ago that the north was routinely dismissed here as a self-isolating pariah state.

40.   It was not long ago that the north was routinely dismissed in Washington as a self-isolating pariah state.