Conflict670

Goguryeo Restoration Movement

Geom Mo-jam rose at Hanseong (Jaeryeong, Hwanghae) with the Goguryeo prince An Seung as king; Silla later installed An Seung as king of Bodeok at Geummajeo (Iksan).

After Goguryeo fell, Tang moved tens of thousands of households deep into China. In 670 Geom Mo-jam brought the prince An Seung from an island in the Yellow Sea and made him king at Hanseong (Jaeryeong, Hwanghae). The same year Go Yeon-mu crossed the Yalu with the Silla general Seol O-yu to attack Ogol Fortress. Silla backed the rebels against Tang.

But An Seung killed Geom Mo-jam and fled to Silla, where King Munmu settled him at Geummajeo (Iksan) and made him king of Goguryeo (later of Bodeok), a state absorbed into Silla in 684.

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States and rulers at the time: Goguryeo
Silla · reinforcements — King Munmu

People

King MunmuAD 626 – AD 681
related figure · Thirtieth king of Silla, who destroyed Goguryeo, expelled Tang and completed unification
Geom Mo-jamAD 670
leader · Leader of the Goguryeo restoration movement who in 670 raised Anseung as king at Hanseong (Jaeryeong, Hwanghae)
Anseung
leader · Goguryeo royal raised as king by Geom Mo-jam, whom he killed before going over to Silla and becoming king of Goguryeo (later Bodeok) at Geummajeo (Iksan)

Before and after

Earlier: AD 668 Fall of Goguryeo
Later: AD 670 Silla–Tang War and Unification

Themes that include this event

Wars of Korean UnificationAD 598 – AD 676
From Goguryeo's wars with Sui and Tang to Silla's unification — eighty years of East Asian war on the peninsula