North Korea’s ‘Only Openly Gay Defector’ Finds Love

Photo courtesy of BigStock/mkabakov
Photo courtesy of BigStock/mkabakov

Photo courtesy of BigStock/mkabakov


The BBC reports that Jang Yeong-jin’s remarkable story as North Korea’s only openly gay defector was covered by the international media after he published his autobiography, and now, almost a quarter of a century after fleeing the country, he tells the BBC that he plans to marry his American boyfriend.

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