The United States remains open to "authentic" and "credible" negotiations with North Korea, but Pyongyang must first show it is serious about abandoning its nuclear-weapons capabilities, the White House said Thursday. "So far, we have not seen that," said deputy spokesman Josh Earnest. "The belligerent actions and words that we've seen emanating from the North Korean regime actually indicate the opposite." "We're open to credible, authentic negotiations, but that's going to require clear signals from the North Korean regime-signals we haven't seen so far," Earnest told reporters aboard the presidential airplane as President Barack Obama headed to Boston, the site of explosions this week that killed three people and injured more than 170.
