7世紀 羅唐關係의 始末

Abstract

East Asia was in the middle of turbulent times in the 7th century. For a long period, the Chinese Continent had been divided but as the unified regimes, such as the Sui Dynasty and the Dang Dynasty seized the integral power on the continent/ unified the whole continent the new order began to take place. At that time, on the Korean peninsula the Three States, Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla engaged in a heated competition for survival. The developments of history would differ greatly depending on how their relation would settle down. At last, the Tang Dynasty and the Silla Dynasty had a close relationship between each other to overthrow the kingdoms of Goguryeo and Baekje. After Baekje and Goguryeo fell into the ground, the Silla-Tang war could not be avoided in the last resort. The scrutiny into the innermost situations of the two states implied that the objectives and directions of the war for each country were different. Accordingly, the alliance between Silla and Tang was just a temporary means to attack Goguryeo and Baekje. So, the two states had to be in a confrontation against each other with a view to achieving their own goals. In this manner, Silla and Tang dreamed of the two different purposes while keeping ties with each other. Those circumstances were not carefully examined before. In other words, the overall context could not be understood, for example, the process how Kim Chun Chu and Emperor Taizong of Tang became allied with each other and the characteristic and internal situation of the alliance, and the reason why they happened to attack Baekje as late as in 660, etc. This article points out at least part of such an implication by taking a survey of the whole story about the Silla-Tang relation in the 7th century. A More detailed and systematic review is left for the further study.