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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