They are not North Koreans. Does anyone else notice the PRC flag in the background? Additionally, the AKs are used with blanks, to give a bang, not actually loaded (cannon shell versus small arms, different ballistics anyone?). To the people that think of the NK as backward, you try living in a world completely cut off and communism is all you are taught and know. Never underestimate a people, underestimate a goverment... I am frankly tired of people and ethnocentrism when it comes to underprivlidged people in a country that has such a terrible government that they can do nothing about b/c generations of horrible conditions, violence and opression can kill someone's will to be like us.