- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- 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 North Korea is legal.
While punishment is rare, it was reported by Free North Korea Radio that in September 2011 North Korea executed a lesbian couple for being influenced by capitalism and bringing corruption of public morals. However, this report has never been confirmed to be true.
Finally, even though de jure homosexuality is not prohibited, de facto there were some cases of punishment for LGBT people
Same-sex marriage in North Korea is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in North Korea is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in North Korea is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in North Korea is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in North Korea is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in North Korea is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in North Korea is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in North Korea is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in North Korea is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in North Korea is unknown.
Serving openly in military in North Korea 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 North Korea is unknown.
Conversion therapy in North Korea is unknown.
Equal age of consent in North Korea is equal.
LGBT Rights by Province
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- Kaesong (Metropolitan City)
- Pyongyang (Capital City)
- Nason (Special City)
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