President Bush’s newly appointed envoy on human rights abuses in North Korea suggested Thursday that U.S. food aid might be linked to liberating political prisoners. Despite sharp differences with the insular Pyongyang regime, the Bush administration has provided tons of American food to hungry people in North Korea on humanitarian grounds. In announcing donation of more than 55,000 tons of food last June, a State Department spokesman, for instance, said “our decisions are made on humanitarian considerations solely.”Full Story