The Foreign Service Journal, September 2007

treatment is performed, not when you receive the bill. My daughter was treated in Vienna, but the bill did not arrive until two years (and two posts) later. I immediately submitted an insurance claim, which was denied for coming in after the deadline. An appeal to the insurance company was denied, and an appeal to the Office of Personnel Manage- ment was denied. Basically, neither of them cared that not receiving the bill for two years was beyond my control, even with a letter from Embassy Vienna verifying that the billing took that long. Everyone, especially those posted in countries with socialized medicine, needs to keep this in mind. Roger W. Johnson IMO Embassy Manila S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 7 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 9 L E T T E R S CORRECTIONS We misidentified North Korea’s foreign minister in “Turnabout Is Fair Play,” by Leon Sigal (July- August). In the third paragraph on p. 30, the passage should read, “… promised a meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and North Korean Foreign Minister Park Ui-chun.” Kim Gye- gwan, a DPRK diplomat, is vice foreign minister. Due to another editing error in the same issue, the leader cited in the opening paragraph of Bob Guldin’s article, “Russian Nukes: Situation Terrible, But Much Improved” (p. 36), should have been Boris Yeltsin, not Vladmir Putin. We regret the errors.