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Abstract

In 648, Chunchu Kim and the Emperor Taizong of Tang dynasty made an arrangement thatif they defeat Baekje and Goguryo, Tang would occupy the Goguryeo territory in the north of Pyeongyang and Silla would occupy the Goguryeo territory in the south of Pyeongyang along with the Baekje territory. However, after they defeated Baekje and Goguryeo, Tang did not honor the arrangement and directly governed the Baekje and Goguryeo territories in the south of Pyeongyang, without transferring them to Silla as promised. Tang even tried to make Silla one of it’s province, Gimiju(羈靡州). Therefore, Silla waged a war against the Tang Dynasty to retrieve Baekje and southern Goguryeo territories, and to protect its sovereignty. Eventually, Silla succeeded in occupying the Baekje territory in the early 670s. It also merged the Goguryeo territory located between the north of the Imjin River and the south of the Yeseong River as one of its counties and prefectures. Silla also strived to integrate the Baekje refugees and the Goguryeo refugees who lived in the southern Goguryeo territory into its society. Therefore, it is inappropriate to name the war in the middle and late of the 7th century as a ‘Silla’s Baekje unification war’; rather, it is more reasonable to call it a “Silla’s Unification War of Three Kingdoms”.