As for the parliamentary elections, a poll conducted on March 31st by the Korea Society Opinion Institute gives Saenuri support of 38.8%, with the DUP a little over five points behind, compared with a deficit of nine points before the surveillance scandal broke.

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Treachery, deceit and intrigue are rampant in Five Points, and disguised little better behind the facades of the Fifth Avenue brownstone.

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But in reading the five bullet points, many of them hold little to no water.

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