Sogwang was one of the publications issued during the past anti-Japanese armed struggle.

Founded on May 3, Juche 26 (1937) as the organ of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, the weekly took it as its basic mission to arm its members with Kim Il Sung's revolutionary and military ideas, guerrilla tactics and excellent art of command and thus train them to be competent political and military cadres.

The newspaper carried "The Tasks of Korean Communists" and other works and treatises authored by the President.

It dealt in a systematic way with such theoretical and practical issues arising in the Korean revolution as the character and tasks, motive forces and targets of the Korean revolution, the worker-peasant alliance and the united front.

Given in the paper were data necessary for guerrillas' political and military study and articles on the pressing demands and immediate fighting slogans of the Korean people. And it featured heroic struggle and battle results of the KPRA and literary works including novels and poems.

The paper was widely distributed among the KPRA units and organizations of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland to encourage the guerrillas and people in the revolutionary struggle.