Koreas will hold first talks since tests

North and South Korea are restoring ties during talks scheduled to start today in Pyongyang, following the communist country’s pledge to shut down its nuclear reactor.

The talks will be the first Cabinet-level meetings since the North’s July missile tests.

In Washington, the State Department confirmed that it was working on logistics of a New York meeting between North Korea’s top nuclear negotiator and U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill this week. Kim Kye Gwan may visit San Francisco first.