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Anseung

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)

He is said to have been a son of King Bojang by a concubine, or his grandson through a daughter. When he came to Silla in 670, King Munmu settled him at Geummajeo (Iksan) as king of Goguryeo, renaming him King of Bodeok in 674. Under King Sinmun he was called to Gyeongju, given the Kim surname and made a Silla noble, and Bodeok was abolished after its people’s revolt was put down in 684.

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AD 670Goguryeo Restoration Movementleader
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).

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King MunmuAD 626 – AD 681
Thirtieth king of Silla, who destroyed Goguryeo, expelled Tang and completed unification
Geom Mo-jamAD 670
Leader of the Goguryeo restoration movement who in 670 raised Anseung as king at Hanseong (Jaeryeong, Hwanghae)

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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