Fresh from hosting a grand nuclear-security summit attended by the presidents of America and China, South Korea's president, Lee Myung-bak, has been hurled summarily into tawdry politics at home. The ruling Saenuri Party, until recently known as the Grand National Party, has had a year of scandals. Now Mr Lee faces what his critics are calling a Korean Watergate. Journalists at Korean Broadcasting System (kbs), who are on strike along with colleagues at two other stations, claim that they have over 2,600 files that point to illegal surveillance carried out between 2008 and 2010 by a government "ethics team".
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