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The MiG-15 was slightly better than the F-86, but the MiG suffered from high speed instability and it's weapons had a slow rate of fire. What gave the F-86 is legendary status was pilot training. U.S. pilots were highly skilled, North Korean pilots had far less training and that does make a big difference.

Here's a quick and interesting read on the subject, complete with a comparison chart.

http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p86_11.html