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North Koreans had their closest encounter with the United States during the US / UN occupation of North Korea in the two months after the Inchon landing.

With help from the ROK Army, the United States ' military, under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, moved to set up a civil administration for North Korea in the wake of the presumed destruction of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

MacArthur planned to find North Korean generals, especially Kim Il-Sung, and try them as war criminals.