Textbook row spills to local council

Councilors from the ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy (NPAD) exchange curses during a session at the Gyeonggi Province Council building in Suwon, Thursday. Saenuri members protested the opposition party’s unilateral endorsement of a resolution against the government’s state-authored history textbook. The provincial council is controlled by the opposition party. / Yonhap