They hit record highs yesterday and only fell back today after the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain issued a declaration at the G20 in Seoul, aimed at reassuring investors.

今天英国，法国，德国，意大利和西班牙在首尔签订20国集团发表的旨在放宽投资者的联合宣言后出现了回落状态。

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Choi Jong-kun, an international relations professor at Seoul's Yonsei University, thinks the declaration that Pyongyang violated international law is mainly for the consumption of angry South Koreans.

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The reports followed the Tuesday signing of a joint declaration between Putin and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, which appeared to suggest Seoul opposed the U.S. plans.

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