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Rights group calls for end to S. Korea military sex law

All able-bodied South Korean men are obliged to serve for 21 months in South Korea's near 600,000-strong military, which is faced off against North Korea's 1.28 million-strong army. – EPA pic, March 7, 2019.

AN international human rights group called today South Korea to stop criminalising homosexual acts between soldiers, calling the military law a “blight” on the country’s human rights record. Under Seoul’s military regulations, soldiers of the same gender caught having sex can face up to two years in prison – even though it is legal in civilian life.

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