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NORTH KOREA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR: ''S A WEIRD LIFE'

Turns out the U.S. isn't the only natn stgglg wh same-sex marriage right now. North Korean lear "Kim Jong Un" announced on "Saturday Night Live" that he's liftg the gay marriage ban his untry -- bee his (executed) nephew was gay. * is kim jong un gay *

By North Korean standards Jang Yeong-j had a normal start life: he joed the ary at 19, pleted 10 years of natnal service and married soon trapped his untry, which he has lled “one huge prison whout bars”, problems wh his marriage led him to fect to South was only when he crossed the borr and spent time a more open society did bee clear to him that he was homosexual, somethg he had never prevly had a name for. The 55-year-old is now the only openly gay North Korean fector livg the South.

“I didn’t know until after I arrived here that I was a gay, or even what homosexualy was. ”Speakg to the European Alliance for Human Rights North Korea, Jang explas that although he is ee of the DPRK regime, life as an openly gay fector remas a explas that men and women are often segregated for long perds of time North Korea.

Photograph: ChaFotoPrs/ChaFotoPrs via Getty ImagWhat did you know about homosexualy growg up North Korea? I nsired my homosexualy as a pathologil ndn.. But [] is a tragedy to live whout knowg that you are ’s life like for gay people North Korea?

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"In fact, is ridiculo for such gay to sponsor alg wh others' human rights issue." * is kim jong un gay *

As there is no ncept of homosexualy, there is no awarens of the issue. This isn’t to say that all the men are gay, but rather, they are tied by a special raship.

Michael Kirby, thor of a UN report to human rights the DPRK, is an openly gay man. After the publitn of his report, the Korean Central News Agency published an article that ntaed many homophobic slurs aimed at him.

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• The New York Tim began publishg announcements of same-sex unns September 2002, long before gay marriage was legally regnized the Uned Stat.

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Mostly bee of the experienc of a nephew that happens to be gay. "The nephew was executed, Kim said, "but not bee he was gay" -- rather, was bee of the weekly book group he had been hostg at his sisted he has "no personal stake" the issue whatsoever, bee he's "as heterosexual as a person n be.

A North Korean state news agency has lashed out at the Uned Natns' recent report to human rights the Herm Kgdom – by g homophobic sults agast the man who led the vtigatn.

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"It then clud two paragraphs that took aim at Kirby, an openly gay man, personally:As for Kirby who took the lead okg the "report", he is a disgtg old lecher wh a 40-odd-year-long reer of homosexualy. He is now over seventy, but he is still anx to get married to his homosexual practice n never be found the DPRK boastg of the sound mentaly and good morals, and homosexualy has bee a target of public cricism even Wtern untri, too. In fact, is ridiculo for such gay to sponsor alg wh others' human rights full article n be found on the KCNA Web se.

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"However, the e of homophobic sults seems exceptnal, even for North Korea: A quick search of KCNA appears to show that this is the first time the agency has ed the word "homosexual" sce the agency went onle. Officially, homosexualy don't exist North Korea, and there appear to be no laws on the books banng .

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