- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Hamgyong-bukdo is legal.
There are, however, claims that it is de facto illegal. An example of this claim is that in September of 2011, it was reported by Free North Korea Radio that North Korea executed a lesbian couple for being influenced by capitalism and bringing corruption of public morals.
Same-sex marriage in Hamgyong-bukdo is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Hamgyong-bukdo is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Hamgyong-bukdo is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Hamgyong-bukdo is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Hamgyong-bukdo is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Hamgyong-bukdo is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Hamgyong-bukdo is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Hamgyong-bukdo is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in Hamgyong-bukdo is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Hamgyong-bukdo is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Hamgyong-bukdo is ambiguous.
However there are sources that claim that during the compulsory 10 year military service homosexual acts between men are very common.
Blood donations by MSMs in Hamgyong-bukdo is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Hamgyong-bukdo is unknown.
Equal age of consent in Hamgyong-bukdo is equal.