To be fair to them, the cab looks rather less amateurish than the Shanghai Airport Maglev. There aren't any power adaptors or fans loose on the floor...
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They might have built it, They've built quite a few electric locomotives in the past.
Back in 2011 they unveiled a new electric locomotive that they claimed was domestically developed, but borrowed heavily from Chinese designs and wasn't built in any quantity. The fact that it looks modern doesn't really tell us a huge amount, since we don't know what's actually inside the fancy looking bodyshell, and the bodyshell looks pretty odd too. But for a lot of developing countries being seen to manufacture something like this domestically is more important in terms of propaganda and national pride than actual utility, this factor is multiplied by ten for the more kleptocratic dictatorships like North Korea.
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I'm not an expert on trains, but that Cab looks exceptionally bare, and the controls seem quite... strange? The brass brake levers on the left hand side don't really fit in with the more modern controls and electronic displays. The main controls are offset pretty far to the left and those screens and buttons on the shiny control panel won't really be accessible to the driver on the left hand office chair? Maybe in production models the office chairs will come on wheels?
