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Re: U.S. Army in Korea December 1945



Art,
 
I presume you landed at Inchon to a welcome party of Japanese honor guards.  In early August 1945, the Japanese Governor General had a series of secret meetings with Yo Un Hyong and agreed to turn over the government to an interim Korean government.
 
Cocurrently, the commander of the Army in Korea (josen-gun) was in radio comm with the American general in charge of the US occupation army in Korea. 
 
The US military overruled  the governor and the Japanese military and police stayed on in South Korea.
 
 
ysk