1.  APTV has a profile of the leader of the secretive Stalinist state.

2.  Chinese police have been protecting the consulate while negotiators wrangle over what to do with Hwang, the most senior official ever to flee his secretive Stalinist state.

3.  Fears are rising that the secretive communist state may be preparing another launch.

4.  He added that he would not make any objection if the secretive Marxist state stopped nuclear arms development and turned into a democracy.

5.  He urged the secretive communist state to abandon its nuclear and missile development programs in exchange for economic and diplomatic help.

6.  North Korea says its ultimate use of a huge tunnel once suspected of being a nuclear facility depends on U.S. attitudes toward the secretive communist state.

7.  The first group of wives was allowed to come to Japan from North Korea in November after laborious negotiations between Tokyo and the secretive communist state.

8.  The Koreans on this side of the river know better than most the misery of the secretive Stalinist state.

9.  The probe marked the first time that the secretive Gulf state has allowed a public review of its human rights record by a U.N. agency.

10.  The secretive state does admit to suffering an acute food shortage.