Can't or won't? Gary Johnson ducks North Korea query

Gary Johnson says he knows who the leader of North Korea is — he just doesn’t want to say.

In an interview with The New York Times Wednesday Johnson was asked if he knew the name of North Korea’s leader — Kim Jong Un — he responded “I do.”

“You want me to name [the leader],” he said before adding “really.” But he never did name the leader.

Johnson drew plenty of notoriety for two recent foreign policy missteps. In early September Johnson fumbled when asked about Aleppo, Syria — one of the hardest hit areas of the country’s civil war — he asked “What is Aleppo?”

In late September Johnson failed to name any world leader he admired.

In The Times interview, Johnson expressed frustration that people were emphasizing Clinton’s knowledge on the logistics of foreign policy people but were ignoring her hawkish nature. Johnson is known for his non-interventionist stance.

“Because Hillary Clinton can dot the i’s and cross the t’s on geographic leaders, of the names of foreign leaders,” he said, “the underlying fact that hundreds of thousands of people have died in Syria goes by the wayside.”

Johnson said that Clinton “bears responsibility for what’s happened, shared responsibility for what’s happened in Syria. I would not have put us in that situation from the get-go.”

The comments came the same day Johnson's running mate William Weld was asked on CNN about Johnson's first two foreign policy flubs. “We’d like to have those two sentences back no question," he said.