Leader of the Goguryeo restoration movement who in 670 raised Anseung as king at Hanseong (Jaeryeong, Hwanghae)
After Goguryeo fell he gathered its refugees in 670 and welcomed the royal Anseung, then on an island in the Yellow Sea, as king. He sent to Silla for help, and Silla, preparing to fight Tang, backed the restoration forces. But he fell out with Anseung, who killed him.
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).
Thirtieth king of Silla, who destroyed Goguryeo, expelled Tang and completed unification
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)
From Goguryeo's wars with Sui and Tang to Silla's unification — eighty years of East Asian war on the peninsula