Citing an online article, this text lists the alleged Peace Boat cruises involving North Korea, describes participation conditions (including required written consent), and summarizes claims about individuals and organizational links surrounding the project, presenting the assertions as they appear in the cited source.

2019-02-07.
There have been five Peace Boat cruises that traveled to North Korea in the past.
A chapter published on 2018-09-20, titled “Public security authorities determined that Tsujimoto is a former Zainichi Korean and a North Korean operative, and that the de facto organizer of ‘Peace Boat’ is Chongryon,” is now among the top ten most-searched items on goo.
Perhaps the Japanese public is now beginning, from the bottom of their hearts, to understand who this person really is.
The following is an article posted online by a user named Ukio-buro.
Kiyomi Tsujimoto.
2013-04-03 10:06:39 | Materials.
Kiyomi Tsujimoto.
(Tsujimoto Kiyomi, born April 28, 1960.)
She has served as Policy Research Council Chair of the Social Democratic Party (5th), Diet Affairs Committee Chair (8th), Vice Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (Hatoyama Yukio Cabinet), and Special Advisor to the Prime Minister (in charge of disaster volunteer activities), among other roles.
http://www.kiyomi.gr.jp/
In Tsujimoto’s past career there is an item described as “organizer of Peace Boat.”
On the surface, the purpose is said to be to have young people travel by ship around the world (all socialist countries) to broaden their horizons.
But in reality, it is claimed that the goal was to make Japanese youth sympathizers of Korea, and ideally spies.
Public security authorities reportedly took note of how Tsujimoto, merely a female university student, was able to do so much.
(1) From where was the operating budget procured?
(2) Why was it possible to smoothly bring many Japanese young people into North Korea every year? (To enter North Korea, one must go to Chongryon, and in some cases it can take more than a year for permission to be granted.)
Public security authorities reportedly concluded that Tsujimoto was a former Zainichi Korean and a North Korean operative, and that the de facto organizer of “Peace Boat” was Chongryon.
Akira Kitagawa, Tsujimoto’s common-law husband, is the president of a publishing company called Daisan Shokan, and he is described as a Japanese Red Army operative responsible for Europe who was forcibly deported from Sweden and arrested in 1975 for violating the Passport Act.
He had allegedly been scheduled to participate in a kidnapping-and-ransom operation targeting a Japanese businessman in West Germany, which ended as an attempted plot, and is described as a person of interest whose movements had long been monitored by the Public Security Intelligence Agency.
Tsujimoto’s electoral district is Osaka’s 10th district (Takatsuki and Shimamoto), and her family reportedly runs an udon shop.
Her political base, Takatsuki City, is the location where Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu once hid and was arrested, and is described as an area with many people connected to or supporting the Japanese Red Army.
It is claimed that Tsujimoto’s campaign headquarters still includes many former members of extremist groups.
(It is also claimed that Tsujimoto had ties to far-left groups while at Waseda University.)
It is further claimed that the publisher “Daisan Shokan,” run by Kitagawa, produced many strongly far-left, anti-establishment, and anti-social books, including detailed works about marijuana, murder, and terrorism.
Five works by Tsujimoto were also published by Daisan Shokan.
Marijuana Now / Publisher: Daisan Shokan.
Marijuana High / Publisher: Daisan Shokan.
From Chocolate to Heroin / Publisher: Daisan Shokan.
The Art of Murder / Publisher: Daisan Shokan.
The Art of Assassination / Publisher: Daisan Shokan.
It is also claimed that during the period when Tsujimoto was organizing Peace Boat, marijuana was openly used among participants on board (including, it says, manga artist Kei Ishizaka), taking advantage of the fact that authorities could not easily monitor the ship.
“Peace Boat” is described as the public-facing organization of an international support structure that the Japanese Red Army sought to build, called ADEF (Anti-War Democratic Front).
It is also claimed that Kitagawa blended into Peace Boat when the Japanese Red Army moved.
There have been five Peace Boat cruises that traveled to North Korea in the past.
1991, 12th voyage: “Korea” Cruise.
1996, 19th voyage: “Pyongyang” Cruise.
2000, 29th voyage: “Asia Future Voyage” Cruise.
2001, 34th voyage: “North and South Korea” Cruise.
2002, 38th voyage: “North and South Korea, Sakhalin, Kunashiri Island” Cruise.
2003, 42nd voyage: “From Hiroshima to North and South Korea” Cruise — not realized.
The sixth attempt failed.
Because North Korea had already officially acknowledged the abductions, it is claimed that even if the cruise was announced, only insiders and sympathizers would go, and it could not realistically be established.
Some volunteers are said to believe that the failure of the sixth attempt was “skipped because the number sounded unlucky.”
It is stated that there are two types of Peace Boat cruises.
One is a cruise that basically anyone can join freely as long as they pay.
The other is a cruise that requires signing a “consent form agreeing to the statement of purpose.”
The 2001 “North and South Korea” cruise is said to belong to the latter.
What must one agree to in this “consent form”?
It is said to include agreement to several items such as acknowledging “Japan’s past wrongs,” making “the sorrow of the Korean people’s division between North and South” one’s own, and striving for its resolution.
●During the Peace Boat period, when visiting PKO activities in Cambodia, it is claimed that she said to exhausted Self-Defense Force members engaged in reconstruction work such as road construction, “Hey you!! You’ve got condoms in there (pointing to the breast pocket), don’t you!!”
(From Shigeki Miyajima’s book, “Ah, the Proud Self-Defense Forces.”)
●In May 2009, Japanese Self-Defense Force vessels escorted seven Japan-related ships sailing off Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden.
One of them was a passenger ship for a Peace Boat voyage.
Peace Boat is also said to have joined a joint statement by civic groups opposing the dispatch of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
A staff member at its secretariat is quoted as saying, “It is regrettable that the MSDF, not the Japan Coast Guard, has been dispatched, but the safety of participants comes first regardless of our stance. We respect the judgment of the planning and operating company that requested the escort.”
“Opposed, but want protection.”
This chapter continues.