BEIJING: A senior United Nations official traveled to North Korea on Tuesday for a rare visit aimed at defusing soaring tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.

Jeffrey Feltman’s visit—the first by a UN diplomat of his rank since 2010—comes less than a week after North Korea said it test-fired a new ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States.

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