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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Some 50, 000 people have already signed a declaration promising to break the law rather than leave foxes alone.

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On 12 December, he described the declaration to be "soft international law, " essentially a political document with no legally binding effect.

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