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Missile launches and nuclear tests by DPRK in 2013 undermined inter-Korean cooperation and regional stability. The primary purpose of these activities was to strengthen legitimacy of Kim Jong Un's administration. South Korean president Park Geun-Hye's trustpolitik policy focused on improving mutual understanding and developing step-by-step inter-Korean cooperation. Regional powers jointly opposed North Korea's missile and nuclear programs, but failed to elaborate common understanding on policies to promote security in the Korean peninsula as well as on prospects for the unification of Korea.

This Open Fora constitutes a record and a transmission of the voices of five Armenian feminists, currently involved in several forms of activism. Interviews were led in January and and February 2022 in Erevan and Vanadzor. What is their definition of feminism? How do they carry out this struggle in Armenia? What are their sources of information and inspiration?
We consider patriarchy spares no society. It therefore seems important to us to understand this system through the testimonies of those who struggle against its local manifestations.

En el presente trabajo se propone un análisis comparativo de dos bloques regionales, el MERCOSUR y el NAFTA, que versa primordialmente sobre la cuestión de sus desarrollos normativos e institucionales en materia ambiental. Se pretende explicar dichos desarrollos a partir de una caracterización de los bloques basada en planteos realistas. Específicamente, se toma como punto de partida el planteo de la hegemonía cooperativa de Thomas Pedersen1 (2002), quien combina consideraciones institucionales con cuestiones de power politics para afirmar que las instituciones desarrolladas por los bloques regionales reflejan las preferencias del hegemón. Preferencias que, en el caso de los temas ambientales, no pueden ser pensadas aisladamente de los compromisos adquiridos por los países en la esfera internacional (Convención Marco de Naciones Unidas para el Cambio Climático). La comparación entre NAFTA y MERCOSUR se presenta como un ejercicio interesante en tanto se trata de procesos americanos de integración que se dan en un mismo período y con similares objetivos de liberalización, pero que aún así portan características claramente diferenciadoras.

The article examines a new sociological problem related to the role and place of remote information and communication technologies (ICT), digital means of communication in interpersonal relations, their impact on the individual and changes in society as a whole. The object of the study is interpersonal relations implemented through the use of digital technologies and mobile devices. The analysis of the conceptual provisions of mod-ern theories of society on the prerequisites and causes of the transformation of interpersonal relationships and the phenomenon of intimacy in the transition and wide distribution of communication through mobile devices is presented. New digital forms of interpersonal communication such as online dating, ghosting are character-ized. The use of ICT, especially mobile devices (gadgets) and the transition of online dating to a mobile plane with the help of various digital applications in social networks, has led to disappearance of the boundary be-tween real and virtual space is becoming much more blurred, and the level of certainty in the environment is decreasing in social space and in personal relationships for both the initiator and the recipient of communica-tion. The easiness to contact with potential romantic partners breeds a lower commitment to maintaining the relationship. If in the real world there are always doubts, then the Internet space offers an infinite number of partners who are definitely open to acquaintances and communication. Therefore, the rupture of digital rela-tions occurs without explanation, simply interrupting communication, there is no need for efforts to end the rela-tionship. Conclusion dwells upon the fact that, despite the obvious advantages of using modern ICT in every-day life, the simplicity and lightning speed of establishing contact, the multiplicity of choices lead to psychologi-cal strain, to the problem of long-term preservation of close relations between partners. A sense of loneliness among people in the modern world arises and grows, posing a threat to the society's well-being as a whole.