What were the primary small arms used by North Korean and Chinese forces during the Korean War?

by Garand

From what little I know about the small arms used by the North Koreans and Chinese, they relied heavily on WWII era equipment leftover from the Japanese. Did either army have a set of standard issue weapons or were they just handed whatever was at hand? Was ammunition difficult to come by as a result?

Arado

The North Korean Army used just about every weapon in the Soviet Arsenal as well as some Chinese and Japanese weapons. This included but is not limited to -

Mosin Nagant - http://www.russian-mosin-nagant.com/global.html
PPSH-41 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPSh-41
SVT-40 - http://www.mosinnagant.net/USSR/svt401.asp
SKS - http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/MILITARY/united_states_army_tc_9-56%20-%201_october_1969.pdf
Type 99 Arisaka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_99_rifle
Degtyaryov DP-28 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degtyaryov_machine_gun
TT-33 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokarev_TT-33

If you'd like further reading then I defer you to this list - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Korean_War_weapons#Communist_states_2

Just be warned that it's from Wikipedia, which isn't always 100% reliable. I tried to give you as many non-wikipedia sources as I could but a lot of those aren't great either. Just be careful what you read.

BreaksFull

The North Koreans mostly used old Soviets stuff, here you can see DPRK soldiers with PPSh SMGs. Looks to have been a popular weapons with Chinese troops too.