Kim's AK-47: Meet North Korea's Killer Type 88 Rifle | The National Interest
This special AK-47 copy can carry a lot, lot more ammo. Key point: North Korea is known to be good at copying and changing other weapons. Here is what it did to the famous AK. One of the largest armies in the world has adopted one of the most unusual variants of the AK-series of assault rifles. The North Korean People’s Army Type 88 rifle is similar to the Soviet-era AK-74 with one key difference: unusual helical magazines that carry up to five times as many rounds as conventional 30-round magazines. This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.
Source: nationalinterest.org