[History Is Alive — Goguryeo Edition] Episode 18: War on Two Fronts, the Shadow of the Tang-Silla Alliance

1. Episode 18 of the Goguryeo edition of the history series explains that the formation of the Tang-Silla Alliance in 648 and the fall of Baekje in 660 forced Goguryeo into a two-front war and isolation.
2. Kim Chunchu negotiated the alliance with Emperor Taizong of Tang in 648, and in 660 a 130,000-strong Tang army under So Jeongbang and a 50,000-strong Silla army under Kim Yushin attacked Baekje from two sides.
3. The majority of scholars view the alliance as Silla's virtually only survival strategy, while some assess it as a gamble that later sparked the Tang-Silla War.

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