- 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
- ✖ No protections
- 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.
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 North Korea is banned.
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 no protections.
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, some sources 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.
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