There’s not a lot of credible info about LGBT rights in the DPRK, but I have found out some things that you may find interesting regarding the subject.

I’m going to start with the things that are not quite positive. Some DPRK publications from like 10 or 20 years ago criticizing the west have derogatory remarks about homosexuality. I’m not going to link them but they do exist. More recent articles criticizng the west do not make mentions of homosexuality, at least not directly. Also same-sex marriage is not legal.

There are no laws on same sex activity in the DPRK.

With regards to tourism, LGBT people have travelled to the DPRK and guess what, they weren’t executed. In this link (around minute 47) a trans man went to the DPRK and the tour guide was concerned about his identity because she heard that women weren’t treated well in the US and asked about it and then the trans guy said it wasn’t because of that, it was his identity and then the tour guide was cool with it.

Doesn’t the DPRK control people by censoring the language so that there are no words for things about sexuality? Nope. (warning: instagram link) A DPRK translation dictionary has the terms “homosexuality, lesbian, transexual, bisexual, gay boy, gay lib (동성련애자해방운동), crossdress, and transvestism.”

DPRK has their own version of planned parenthood called the Family Health Association of Korea, it formerly had a different name. Article 1.4 of their constitution: “The association shall not discriminate on grounds of race, creed, ethnic origin, political belief, backgrounds, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or age…”

There are Korean schools in Japan that teach kids about LGBT. Comrade Kim Jong Un is paying for people to go to these school. I will leave some links below.

https://chosonsinbo.com/jp/2022/12/6-31/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210301071817/http://dareiki.org/2018/09/21/wk-jugyou/ https://chosonsinbo.com/jp/2023/04/24-115/ https://chosonsinbo.com/jp/2025/03/27-226/ (paywalled, I included this to show that they started in 2018 and are still doing it) https://chosonsinbo.com/jp/2025/04/16-149/ (This one shows who is funding the schools)

Also the organization teaches in these schools does meetups for LGBT Koreans living in Japan and I think they are loosely DPRK-affiliated.

Also I remember seeing in the rodong sinmun once that they sent a delegation to the World Federation of Democratic Youth. The WFDY publishes statements like this: https://www.wfdy.org/statements/2023/06/28/we-will-proudly-overthrow-exploitation-and-any-kind-of-oppression/ Although the WFDY also has the communist party of Greece which I’m pretty sure was homophobic so I wouldn’t take this as proof of Workers Party of Korea being pro-LGBT.

If you want more info on this subject I found a post by Korean Friendship League in Brazil: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMqbf2rR1Tl Also I forgot to mention that you will have to translate these, auto translating is good enough for the links I sent