Author(s)

Dijia Yuan

Corresponding Author

Dijia Yuan

Abstract

At the beginning of the 10th century, the Goryeo kingdom set up in Korean peninsula and formulated the Northward Strategy which to expand its territory，thus launched more than 200 years of war and peace contacts with Jurchen tribes, Jurchen Jin Dynasty and Khitan Liao Dynasty. During the reign of Taejo of Goryeo to Seongjong of Goryeo, Goryeo had controlled the area between the Taedong River and the downstream Yalu River depend on Operation” Expulsion of Jurchens”, fortification and immigration. With the outbreak of the Liao-Goryeo Wars and the establishment of subordinate relations between Liao and Goryeo, the strategy of the frontier expansion movement of Goryeo was adjusted. Its approaches of implement became more diversified, and its objective began to move from northwest to northeast. However, influenced by the rise of the Jurchens, the frontier expansion movemen of Goryeo had little effect even it had been amended. On this basis, along with the profound changes of the domestic and foreign situations, the frontier expansion movemen of Goryeo was finally abandoned by Goryeo’s monarchs and ministers in the beginning of the 12th century.

Keywords

The 10th To 12th Centuries; Goryeo; The Frontier Expansion Movement; The Northward Strategy; Geopolitics