A new theory among Korean historians states that Gung-ye, the founder of Taebong, was a descendant of Anseung and the Go Dynasty.
[2] The two factions arose from within the kingdom, and the infighting resulted in the assassination of Geom Mojam on King Anseung's orders.
Geom Mojam's death left the restored Goguryeo gravely weakened.
[3]”[4] The exact number of Goguryeo people that followed Anseung into Silla is unknown, but it is thought that most of them became a part of the Kingdom of Bodeok.
[citation needed] When Goguryeo fell in 668, General Dae Jung-sang and his son, General Dae Joyeong, led Goguryeo soldiers from the Western borders to Dongmo Mountain, and established the kingdom of Balhae.