Lawmakers from the "Saenuri Party" and other ruling forces in south Korea are letting loose a string of spate that the existing history textbooks are "ones for education in unification by communizing the south" and a campaign against "state-compiled history textbooks" is conducted "on the instruction from the north", the editorial said.

The ruling forces' remarks about "followers of the north" revealed their spiritual world, understanding of reality and political purpose, it noted.

"Followers of the north" touted by them is nothing but specter, it said, condemning the ruling forces for working hard to make their trumpeting about "followers of the north" sound plausible in a bid to attain their political purpose.

It is essential to put an end to the row about "followers of the north", it stressed.