The leader of South Korea’s main opposition party on Wednesday compared the push for a government-designated history textbook to the “North Korean education method.”

Moon Jae-in of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy (NPAD) levied the criticism at a meeting of the party’s supreme council.

“(This policy) means applying a uniform standard and totalitarian approach, and is itself dictatorial,” he said.

His remarks came a day after Minister of Education Hwang Woo-yea declared the confirmation of the policy, calling it the “normalization of history education.”

The NPAD has spearheaded opposition to the government’s textbook policy, and Moon on Tuesday had