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RELUCTANCE IN WSHDC TO CONFIRM THIS PROPOSAL NOW THAT KOR/N HAD
MADE IDEA PUBLIC, RELUCTANCE PERHAPS BEING DUE TO UNFORTUNATELY
COINCIDENT TIMING OF RANGOON BOMBING INCIDENT.WHEN ZHAO WAS IN
WSHDC, USA ADMIN HAD PROPOSED FOUR-WAY TALKS WITH ADDITION OF CHINA;
ZHAO SUGGESTED THAT PRC WAS CONSIDERING THIS IDEA BUT THAT INITIAL
REACTION WAS NOT/NOT ENTIRELY POSITIVE.PREMIER THEN WENT ON TO
SUPPORT GENERAL IDEA OF CONFEDERAL SYSTEM FOR KOREAN PENINSULA,WITH
EXISTING SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS MAINTAINED ON BOTH SIDES.PM TRUDEAU
PRESSED ZHAO ON RANGOON INCIDENT AND ITS RELATION TO TIMING OF
TRIPARTITE PROPOSAL ANNOUNCEMENT.ZHAO REITERATED PRC STAND AGAINST
TERRORISM IN GENERAL, BUT DECLINED TO TAKE SIDES BETWEEN BURMA AND
OR/N ON BOMBING INCIDENT, CLAIMING PRC HAD NO/NO INDEPENDENT
EVIDENCE ON WHICH TO JUDGE CONFLICTING CLAIMS; HE NOTED THAT BURMA
HAD BEEN QUOTE UNDER PRESSURE UNQUOTE TO REACH FINDING IT DID,EUT
URGED THAT IN ANY EVENT RANGOON INCIDENT SHOULD NOT/NOT BE ALLOWED
TO IMPFDE PROGRESS OF KORIAN REUNIFICATION.LATER ON, PM ASKED WHO
HAD FEEN PRESSURING BURMA; AFTER SOME HESITATION, ZHAO SAID KOR/N HAD
ACCUSED KCR/S OF DOING SO,AND ALSO MENTIONED POSSIBILITY THAT KOR/S
DISSIDENTS MIGHT HAVE BEEN BEHIND BLAST.IN CONTEXT OF TRIPARTITE
PROPOSAL,PM ALSO ASKED IF USSR STILL HAD STRONG INFLUENCE IN KOR/N;
ZHAO SAID MOSCO HAD LOST MUCH OF INFLUENCE IT HAD FEW YEARS AGO.
WITH NO/NO SOVIET TROOPS NOW REMAINING IN KOR/N, FOR EXAMPLE.
7.SOUTHEAST ASIA.CN CAMBODIA, PM TRUDEAU OUTLINED CDAS POLICY OF