North Korea, one of the world's most secretive nations, didn’t acquire its nuclear arsenal alone. How and why did the ‘Hermit Kingdom’ build the bomb? This episode examines the crucial moments which continue to unnerve not only the Asian continent, but the entire world, from the US nuclear threat during the Korean War in the 1950s to the menacing rhetoric between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump.

Few leaders have left a bigger political legacy than India’s first and only female Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. Her brutal assassination in 1984 by her Sikh bodyguards brought to a bloody end the life of an Indian political giant whose impact reached far beyond her nation’s shores.

Emperor Hirohito left behind a legacy of death and destruction, the repercussions of which are still being felt across Asia today. Yet, he was never held accountable for the two wars he supported. This episode explores whether he was a puppet or the puppeteer.

We follow the footsteps of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as East Pakistan moves from Jinnah's Islamist nationalism towards Bengali linguistic and cultural nationalism that led to the creation of Bangladesh. The civil disobedience was responded by the Pakistan Army with war crimes that led to the displacement of 3 million Bengalis. We investigate the reasons for Mujib's rise and his violent death in 1975.