The purpose of this study is to examine the North Korean defectors’ perception and awareness on human rights crisis from an equal opportunity perspective. The results show that they recognized discrimination in equal opportunity with the average score of more than 3.0 points regardless of their demographic and socioeconomic backgrounds. The major findings with statistical significance are as follows. First, as for demographic background, education is associated with ‘discrimination against educational opportunities’, while age is significantly related to ‘higher education, the possibility of higher socioeconomic status’. Second, in terms of socioeconomic background, the possibility of hierarchical movement is related to ‘high education, the opportunity of career choice’ according to residential area, while recognition of hierarchical discrimination is associated with ‘hierarchy, limit of career choice’ according to time of escape from North Korea. Finally, recognition of hierarchical discrimination appears to related to ‘fair punishment of lawbreaker’ according to hierarchy in North Korea.