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North Korea’s only openly gay defector finds love in lockdown
North Korea’s only openly gay defector is engaged. Jang Yeong-jin, 62, met his American fiancée on a dating app and now they have decided to tie the knot.It is a far cry from the first three-plus decades of Jang’s life where he lived in an oppressive State and was trapped in an unhappy marriage with a woman.“I couldn’t lay a finger on my wife,” he told the BBC.