The Daily Telegraph implies in its writing style that the facts Cheney points out aren't well-known. It's Cheney's "opinion" that NK is a "police state run by an irresponsible leader indifferent to the fate of his malnourished people," but nobody can really say for sure whether it is or not....
Don't these reporters do any research? Are they really ignorant of what's going on there? We in fact know very little of what's going on in NK, but we do know that the leader is messed up, and that the people are very hungry....
Besides, wasn't Cheney responding to attacks by NK last week?