Cambodia’s Prince Norodom Ranariddh, half-brother of the country’s King Norodom Sihamoni, will visit North Korea in late June or early July, the prince announced on Thursday to journalists at the country’s Royal Palace.

Norodom, who is also head of Cambodia’s royalist FUNCINPEC political party, said the trip would be a private one, intended to encourage North Korea to slow its development of nuclear weapons and de-escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

“I will take a private visit to North Korea to ask the country’s leader to stop their plan of starting a nuclear war because we understand that when a pair of elephants