The other two of the Three Kingdoms, Baekje and Silla, formed an alliance in response to the Goguryeo threat, leading to a relatively balanced peace.

However, he attempted to salvage starving people from hunger during the 7th year of his reign during the spring.

However, in the last year of Anwon's reign, there was a power struggle between his second and third queens who each sought to make her son the crown prince.

The aristocracy split into two camps, leading to violent battles during which the king was apparently killed.

This internal division was the beginning of a significantly weakening of the royal throne and Goguryeo itself in subsequent years.