Ah but we did not make our leaving contingent upon 'free elections' we had already agreed to leave, it was Stalin that decided once again to use a people to stick it in our eye and disrupt the 'world order'... Might say the same thing is still repeating itself under terrorism... and control of the world's FREE flow of oil, trading nuclear capabilities to strangle the FREE WORLD.
Too bad we didn't arm the South Koreans better, before we abandoned them in 1949.