Pompeo said he was woken up with an urgent call from a senior Indian official as tensions flared in February 2019.
FORMER US SECRETARY of state Mike Pompeo wrote in a book published today that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation.
“He believed the Pakistanis had begun to prepare their nuclear weapons for a strike. India, he informed me, was contemplating its own escalation,” Pompeo wrote.Pompeo said that US diplomats convinced both India and Pakistan that neither was preparing to go nuclear.Pompeo, who wrote that Pakistan “probably enabled” the Kashmir attack, said he spoke to “the actual leader of Pakistan,” then army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, in an allusion to the weakness of civilian governments.
He recalled a chilling first conversation as he flew into Pyongyang in March 2018 on a clandestine trip as CIA director. As for their substantive conversation, Pompeo said Kim spoke candidly on concerns about China, usually viewed as North Korea’s main ally.
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