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The North Korea crisis could be shifting from a bipartisan bane to a presidential campaign issue that pushes U.S. policy in a hard-line direction.

In a fundraising email earlier this month, the Trump campaign touted the administration’s North Korea policy as one of the President’s eight “HUGE wins,” claiming that Trump has “initiated the denuclearization of North Korea.”

Developments since then suggest that the email was not simply a one-off campaign boast, but rather points to a larger strategy of featuring