Murder in the Congo, The Cuban Missile Crisis, & India in the UN (EXTRACT)

Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of Empire. We're doing something different with this one and we're giving everyone access to the bonus this week so you can live a life of an Empire Club member for a day. This is an extract from our brilliant bonus episode that we made to conclude our series on Yalta and the early UN. We talked to my great friend Thant Mint Oo about the history of the UN in the 1960s and the life of his grandfather, Oo Thant, who was the first Asian UN security general and saw the organization through massive world events like the Cuba Missile Crisis.

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