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Korea Divided
The Korean peninsula was split between North and South at the end of World War Two.
The Beginning of the Korean War
North Korean communist troops invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950.
The GI Who Chose China
After the Korean war ended a few American prisoners chose to try life under communism.
The Unified Korean Table Tennis Team
How ping pong brought together athletes from bitter rivals North and South Korea.
The Death of Kim Il-sung
The founding father of communist North Korea died in July 1994.
The Battered Child
The American doctor who forced the medical profession to face up to child abuse.
Bata the Shoemaker's Revolution
Bata, a Czech company, pioneered assembly line shoemaking
Wittenoom: An Australian Tragedy
How a town built around an asbestos mine made its residents fatally ill.
Demoted For Being Gay
When the Israeli Army punished Colonel Uzi Even for being gay, he fought back.
How the World Woke Up to Global Warming
James Hansen got US politicians to listen to his warnings about climate change in 1988.
The King of Lampedusa
How 4,000 Italian troops surrendered to a young Jewish pilot from London, during WW2.
Veronica Guerin - Dying for the Story
The Irish journalist murdered for her work exposing drug barons in the 1990s
The SARS Emergency
Early 2003 saw a medical emergency sweep across the world.
Whiskey On The Rocks
The Cold War stand-off when a Soviet submarine was stranded on a Swedish rock.
The President and the Gun Lobby
Former President George Bush Senior's public row with the National Rifle Association.
The Search For Deep Throat
In July 2005, the most famous informant in American history Deep Throat revealed himself
Flight 655: When The US Shot Down An Airliner
All 290 on board were killed when a US warship downed an Iranian enger jet in 1988
The Toilet
The controversial art installation which upset Russians but is now seen as a masterpiece
Playgrounds Made of Junk
Post-war Britain saw a rise in "adventure playgrounds" born out of bomb-sites
Kosovo: 'Madeleine's War'
Ex-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on why she argued for Nato action in Kosovo
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Published in 1958 the Nigerian writer's first novel revolutionised African fiction.
Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test
How India secretly developed and exploded its first atomic device in 1974
The Spiegel Affair
How a magazine article about West 's defence strategy led to a government crisis.
Italy's 'Ghost Shipwreck'
How journalists located the wreck of a boat that capsized killing nearly 300 migrants
The Killing of the Russian Tsar
The Russian Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918
The Virgin Lands Campaign
To fight food shortages in the 1950s the USSR embarked on a major agricultural project
The Bombing of the King David Hotel
The attack by an armed Jewish group on British HQ in Palestine that left 91 dead.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in July 1968
A Vet Re The Hyde Park Bombing
Two IRA bombs in London parks killed 11 military personnel and 7 horses on 20th July 1982
South Korea's Summer Of Terror
How thousands of suspected communist sympathisers were killed in South Korea in 1950.
The Kitchen Debate
When two Cold War leaders argued about living standards in their countries.
