Fixed wing aircraft have the pilot's seat on the left. Helicopters have it the other way around, with all of the primary flight instruments on the right hand side of the instrument panel. As such, the pilot should have been flying it from the other seat.
The terrain portrayed as North Korea looks nothing like the actual countryside in the Korean peninsula. The terrain is portrayed as a thick jungle, quite obviously filmed in another part of Hawaii, while the actual North Korean landscape is mostly forest covered mountains with cold dirt and mud embankments.