- 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 Pyongyang 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 Pyongyang is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Pyongyang is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Pyongyang is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Pyongyang is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Pyongyang is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Pyongyang is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Pyongyang is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Pyongyang is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in Pyongyang is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Pyongyang is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Pyongyang 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 Pyongyang is unknown.
Equal age of consent in Pyongyang is equal.
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