I was listening to the radio while assembling some furniture 
when I heard the presenter tell a story about how 
once beat a few records playing golf, and because he didn't want those records to ever be broken by anyone, he decided to be a petty little shit and 
golf in the DPRK. Ah yes, totally true story, I'm sure. 
So I looked up golf in the DPRK, and not only is golf not banned, but apparently they run an annual golf tournament that's even open to foreign players. 
It took me literally less than a minute to debunk that ridiculous claim. Even NATOpedia has a page on the fucking tournament. 
But as usual Westerners just can't help themselves and just have to pull nonsensical claims about bAD cOuNtRy out of their colonial stinky doodoo asses. Unreal. 
Honestly five bogeys is really good for a non-professional. Even for a professional it's pretty high up there depending on the course.
The commentary I read noted that too, saying the correct score is also unlikely. Idk, are there other practices, ones that might be used for scoring newbies, that might have lowered his score?
It might be right. If there aren't that many courses in NK, if you play the same course enough times you can get really good at it. It is not outside of reason that he had one really good game and they reported on it. Honestly depending on how much he played , it might be more odd if he never had a good game..
afaik he only played one game, but I don't really know
Is it possible that that also was a sort of score handicap? Like for every hole he took a 1-2 stroke handicap? Then with that addition he got 5 at one above par?
Could also very easily be he cheated to get 1 above par. Honestly couldn't give less of a shit but exploring the possibilities
That is also possible and they forgot to note it.
That was my guess but I know nothing about golf