SEOUL: A simmering row over alleged election meddling by South Korea’s domestic spy service is threatening to boil over into a full-blown scandal that could seriously scald President Park Geun-hye’s administration.
An investigation into what initially seemed the work of a couple of maverick National Intelligence Service (NIS) agents, has now become a wider probe into a possibly coordinated online smear campaign against the opposition candidate in last year’s presidential polls.
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