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with:

• Mary O'Hagan, NDI senior resident director- Kenya;

• Joel D. Barkan, senior associate, CSIS Africa Program;

• and moderated by Jennifer G. Cooke, director, CSIS Africa Program

Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, 3 - 4:30 p.m.
Fourth Floor Conference Room, CSIS
1800 K St. NW, Washington, D.C.

You for Me for You, written by Korean American playwright Mia Chung, tells the story of two North Korean sisters - Yuna and Minjee. Facing starvation at the hands of the North Korean regime, they make a bargain with a smuggler to flee to the United States. When one sister is denied passage because she is too weak to make the treacherous trans-Pacific crossing, the other sister vows to race across time and space and return to save Minjee. However, the free world is not without its challenges.