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By all means, the Park Geun-hye government finalized its plan to adopt state authorized history textbooks. This is an act of terrorism against democracy and the Constitution. The government ignored the Constitution, democracy and the opposition of the majority of the people. It also ignored the advice of the international community including the United Nations (UN) and international teachers' organizations. Despite criticism that the government was following in the footsteps of North Korea, Nazi Germany, and Japan's militarism, the government did not bother to even pretend to listen...(editorial by Kyunghyang Shinmun, 11.4)

This cartoon depicts President Park Geun-hye, clad in military attire similar to that worn by her father, late dictator Park Chung-hee, using the single state-issued history textbook to blow a hole in democracy. (source: Hankyoreh, 11.4)