Join us for an exciting conversation with Eunsun Kim, a North Korean refugee and author. Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea. Like many North Koreans born in the 1980s and 1990s, she often suffered from starvation. She wrote her will because she thought she was going to perish. At the time, she was 11 years old. Her mother later returned to save her, starting a nine-year journey to freedom. She suffered through homelessness, was trafficked in China, survived a North Korean labor camp, and finally made it by walking across the deserts of Mongolia.

Eunsun is the author of the book A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea. The book was originally published in French in 2012 by Sebastian Falletti, then translated into English by David Tian in 2015. Eunsun hopes that sharing her story will inspire concerned world citizens to help ease the plight of everyday North Koreans and come to understand them better as people with hopes, dreams and a longing to share in the everyday freedoms that can be so easily taken for granted.

This event is being held in partnership with the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Association (HKSNEAA) and Freedom Speakers International.