An Unfinished Story: A Thousand Miles to Freedom
Thursday, June 10, 2021
7:00-8:00pm ET

Join us for an exciting conversation with Eunsun Kim, 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. FSI, an organization based in Seoul, South Korea, has worked with 470 North Korean refugees to develop their English and public speaking skills in order to share their stories with the world. Eunsun joined FSI (formerly TNKR) in 2014 and was the winner of the organization’s third English speech contest. She will be joined that evening by co-founders Casey Lartigue (HGSE ’91) and Eunkoo Lee. Please consider donating to FSI to help make more events featuring North Korean refugees, such as this one, possible.