The revolutionary fighters pushed ahead with the preparations for the publication of the organ true to the intention of President Kim Il Sung even under difficult conditions of waging the bloody fight against the Japanese imperialists.

The most difficult problem remained even after the last stage of the preparation for the publication of the first issue of Samil Wolgan: the acquisition of printing equipment. At that time they had only one old mimeograph. They also lacked ink, roller, stencil and paper.

They solved the shortages by themselves. When ink was running short, they burned birch bark under a hood made of tin-plate and scraped the soot gathered on the plate. They left the soot immersed in oil and mixed it with ink manufactured in factories, before using it. When the roller was worn out, they boiled a mixture of glue and resin and poured it into a mould to make a roller.

In his reminiscences "With the Century", Kim Il Sung said that their strenuous dedication to the Samil Wolgan deserves prominent mention as a prototype of self-reliance and fortitude.

The inaugural number of the Samil Wolgan was published on December 1, Juche 25 (1936).