CIA Director Mike Pompeo Michael (Mike) Richard PompeoUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Sunday shows preview: Justice Ginsburg dies, sparking partisan battle over vacancy before election Trump steps up Iran fight in final election stretch MORE in an interview Sunday said he has seen “no intelligence” suggesting that the United States is on the brink of a nuclear war with North Korea.

“I’ve seen no intelligence to indicate that we’re in that place today,” Pompeo told “Fox News Sunday."

“This administration has made our policy very clear. We’ve engaged the world to support that policy,” Pompeo told host Chris Wallace.

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In his first Sunday show interview since becoming the head of the CIA, the former Republican congressman from Kansas emphasized that the era of “strategic patience” with Kim Jong-Un is over.

“Each time they test another missile, or if they should conduct a nuclear weapons test, they develop expertise. They expand the envelope,” he said.

In a later interview with CBS's "Face the Nation," Pompeo said containment does not make sense for a North Korea policy.

“President Trump finds that unacceptable,” Pompeo said, referencing an op-ed by former national security adviser Susan Rice that said the United States could "tolerate" a nuclear North Korea.

Pompeo’s interviews come after a week of tough rhetoric from President Trump and other Cabinet officials about North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.

Trump last week promised “fire, fury and, frankly, power” should Pyongyang threaten the U.S., while Secretary of Defense James Mattis James Norman MattisBiden courts veterans amid fallout from Trump military controversies Trump says he wanted to take out Syria's Assad but Mattis opposed it Gary Cohn: 'I haven't made up my mind' on vote for president in November MORE urged North Korea to end “any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people.”

--This report was updated at 10:52 a.m.