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> [“This was the first time I had ever known that North Korea has gay people. I am embarrassed to admit that I had thought of homosexuality purely as a foreign phenomenon, or a plotline in TV dramas. One woman in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hyeonseo-lee/this-was-the-first-time-i-had-ever-known-that-north-korea-has-gay/)

[Hyeonseo Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hyeonseo-lee/)

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