SEOUL -- The South Korean National Assembly, or parliament, Wednesday decided to carry the Japanese textbook issue to the 106th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference to seek international condemnation against Japan's distortion of history.

A five-member delegation of the parliament will leave here tomorrow for Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to attend the conference slated to open on September 9-11.

At the conference, the South Korean delegation will give detailed introduction of Japan's approval of eight history textbooks which whitewash Japanese troops' atrocities before and during World War II to seek international support for revision of the textbooks.

Najma Heptulla, president of the Inter-Parliamentary Council, promised to work hard to place the Japanese textbook issue on the IPU's official agenda of the conference, said the South Korean parliament.