North Korea's only openly gay fector: ''s a weird life' | North Korea | The Guardian

Contents:

• NORTH KOREA’S ‘ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR’ FDS LOVE
• ‘I ULD NOT EVEN DREAM’: WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY NORTH KOREA
• NORTH KOREA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR: ''S A WEIRD LIFE'
• GAY LIFE NORTH KOREA
• NORTH KOREA SLAMS U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT BEE WAS LED BY GAY MAN
• S​OUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ​ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX

NORTH KOREA’S ‘ONLY OPENLY GAY FECTOR’ FDS LOVE

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Homosexual activy North Korea is ambiguo.

‘I ULD NOT EVEN DREAM’: WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY NORTH KOREA

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

But, based on a North Korean propaganda film om the year 2000, male homosexualy may be agast the law the ary, cludg for prisoners of war. The untry is racially and ethnilly homogeneo. The untry is racially and ethnilly homogeneo and officially there are no mory groups.

Acrdg to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI+) rights group Equalx, no legal mechanisms exist to protect LGBTQI+ dividuals agast discrimatn hog and employment. Equalx characterized legal protectns for same-sex sexual activy, the right to change legal genr, and gay and lbian persons servg openly the ary as ambiguo. Image source, Oh HwanJang Yeong-j's remarkable story as North Korea's only openly gay fector was vered by the ternatnal media after he published his tobgraphy.

Medil tts "There is no ncept of homosexualy North Korea, " he says. Park Jeong-Won, a law profsor at Seoul's Kookm Universy, says that he is not aware of any explic North Korean law agast gay and lbian relatnships.

GAY LIFE NORTH KOREA

But he adds that the state's laws agast extramaral relatns and breachg social mor would probably be -opted to prosecutg any gay sexual act. "When I asked them about homosexualy, they didn't tch on quickly so I had to expla to every sgle person, " Kim, profsor of North Korean Studi at Ewha Women's Universy, says.

He turned the page to disver an article about gay men g out, wh a scene om an Amerin film showg two men kissg source, Chosun-ilboImage ptn, Jang's risky fectn route ma headl the SouthFally dawned on Jang that he, too, was gay.

"The revelatn transformed Jang's life, and he beme a regular at Seoul's gay bars. "I heard that there are many gay bars there. The untry is racially and ethnilly homogeno.

NORTH KOREA SLAMS U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT BEE WAS LED BY GAY MAN

Acrdg to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) rights group Equalx, no legal mechanisms exist for LGBTI dividuals to protect agast discrimatn hog and employment.

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S​OUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ​ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX

Gay North Korean fector speaks out. He was driven to leave the North by the difficulti of livg there as a gay man.

Jang did not hear the word “homosexual” for the first 37 years of his life, sayg he had no ncept of what meant, somethg not unual his native North Korea. Readg a magaze a doctor’s surgery 1998, not long after he arrived South Korea, Jang saw an article about homosexualy.

“That was the first time I knew what homosexualy was and I was really pleased, ” he says. He has few iends and beg the only out gay fector the South has ma settlg twice as hard. 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.