India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 after Kashmir bombing and US intervention prevented escalation, ex-US top diplomat Mike Pompeo claims in his book
Indian official"believed the Pakistanis had begun to prepare their nuclear weapons for a strike. India, he informed me, was contemplating its own escalation," Pompeo writes.
India, in February 2019, broke precedent by launching air strikes inside Pakistani territory after blaming a militant group there for a suicide bombing that killed 41 Indian paramilitary soldiers in the flashpoint Kashmir region. , 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.In his book, Pompeo spoke highly of India and, unlike officials in New Delhi, made no secret of his desire to ally with the South Asian democracy "to counteract Chinese aggression."Then-president Bill Clinton famously would say that Kashmir, divided between the two nations, was "the most dangerous place in the world.
"'I didn't think you'd show up. I know you've been trying to kill me,'" Pompeo quotes Kim as telling him.But Pompeo described a budding understanding with Kim as the Trump administration offered incentives to lower tension. Told that China believes North Korea wants US forces out of South Korea, "Kim laughed and pounded on the table in sheer joy, exclaiming that the Chinese were liars."
He said that Trump told him with an epithet that Chinese President Xi Jinping "hates you" and asked Pompeo to "shut the hell up for a while" as the United States needed health supplies from China.
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