Page 25 - HP2A 008 King Gwanggaeto

The majority of his initial army

during the early years of his

conquest was comprised of the

armies of these aristocrats that

he had confiscated, and by waging

war using this army, he was able to

significantly weaken the aristocrats

and successfully concentrated most came from the same ancestry, and

power to the throne. therefore treated the other kingdoms

He was also credited for creating a as brothers. That is why he sufficed

racial identity of the Korean people. with a surrender from the king of

He thought that Bakjae, Shilla and Bakjae instead of wiping out the

Goguryeo as well as the other sub- country and helped Shilla defeat the

kingdoms of the Korean peninsula Japan-Bakjae alliance. Many scholars