Britain's broadcaster Channel 4 is planning to launch a political drama series on North Korea and its global nuclear crisis involving the foreign relations of London and Washington D.C.



'Opposite Number' will be consisted of more than 10 episodes on the captivity of a British nuclear scientist in Pyongyang while on a covert mission.



In the series, the two governments of the ‘Special Relationship' will realize the possibility of the scientist to be used as a trigger for North Korea to weaponize its nuclear technology, with both leaders forced to cooperate in mobilizing their society.



Opposite Number will be a suspense-filled set of episodes to take the audience inside the "charged nexus of diplomatic relationships, from the power-playing heads of government to the CIA and MI6 agents secretly deployed on the ground in Pyongyang," according to C4 Press.



Matt Charman, the playwright and screenwriter of Opposite Number, said, "North Korea is one of the last truly impenetrable nations on the planet, and one of the most dangerous for the West."



"I wanted to write a drama that could blow the lid off our understanding of who we think the North Korean people are and what their government truly wants," the screenwriter said.



Channel 4's new international drama division airs the series produced by Mammoth Screen, an independent production company based in London and Belfast.



Damien Timmer, Mammoth Screen's joint managing director, said, "Opposite Number is a thrill ride which taps into some of our deepest fears about international security and scratches away at the special relationship between the U.K. and the U.S. It's global politics, action and espionage as you've never seen before."



The series will be another production of North Korea's attention, following the American comedy movie, "The Interview," which North Korea stated as an ‘act of war' and filed a complaint to the United Nations last month.



