North Dakota's capital (8)
I believe the answer is:
bismarck
'north dakota's capital' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for bismarck that I've seen before include "We sank it, May 1941" , "Uniter of Germany" , "Smack rib badly of a 19th century German statesman" , "The Iron Chancellor" , "Otto von --, German statesman" .)