The world collectively laughed when two young Australian’s conned their way into an international golf tournament, but one week on North Korea still isn’t laughing.

Brisbane mates Morgan Rig and Evan Shay cut their polo trip in Beijing short to con their way into an international golf tournament.

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With no real way of checking if the duo were professional golfers, officials accepted their application and before you know it, they became Australia's national golf team. Only problem was.... they're less than ordinary golfers.

Now safely back on Australian soil, the pranksters said their travel agent had informed them that North Korea demanded they return to the country to apologise.

“We've been told by the travel agent who arranged the trip that North Korea wants us to go back to make an official apology on live TV,” he told the Courier Mail.

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“Yeah, no … we won't be doing that any time soon.”

“Years of hard labour in a North Korean prison doesn't exactly appeal.”

In order to look the part, the 28-year-olds went as far as getting custom Australian blazers made up, looking as professional as ever as they were escorted around Pyongyang for their official duties.

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"We’d just come out of a long lunch, our mate actually did the online application form and they got back to us the next day saying we were in," Mr Ruig said.

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