Taepodong Missile

Leo hurls the Taepodong missile into the fray—a North Korean beast lobbed skyward 24 months back, sputtering to failure yet lurking with deadly promise. Modified, it could claw across oceans to Alaska's shores. In the reception hall's verbal melee, Donna, Marbury, Charlie witness Leo wield it like a rhetorical broadsword, its spectral trajectory slicing through treaty platitudes and aristocratic banter.

3 appearances

Purpose

Long-range ballistic missile test-fired by North Korea, demonstrating potential reach to U.S. territory with modifications despite initial failure.

Significance

Ignites Leo's ferocious push for missile defense shield, embodying rogue-state peril that fractures Anglo-American alliances and propels geopolitical showdown amid White House revelry.

Appearances in the Narrative

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3 moments

S2E12 · The Drop-In

Marbury's Aristocratic Flirtation Shattered by Leo's Yorktown Whoopass

Leo invokes the Taepodong missile as a North Korean threat fired 24 months prior, modifiable to hit Alaska, to justify NMD; Marbury notes its failure, using it as exhibit A for shield irrelevance amid treaty and proliferation concerns.

Before: Historical threat referenced in memory

After: Rhetorical weapon reinforcing debate tensions

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S2E12 · The Drop-In

Leo's Yorktown Whoopass Trumps Marbury's Missile Defense Barrage

Leo wields the Taepodong missile as rhetorical centerpiece, noting North Korea fired it 24 months prior and modifications enable Alaska strikes, framing it as existential threat demanding NMD shields despite Marbury's 'failed' dismissal—narrative linchpin justifying U.S. defiance of treaties.

Before: Historical threat referenced intact

After: Rhetorically amplified as urgent peril

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S2E12 · The Drop-In

Charlie Halts Leo-Marbury Clash as Donna Retreats to Royal Daydreams

The Taepodong missile haunts Leo's prior debate salvoes, its modifiable threat to Alaska capping the rhetorical buildup that Leo's Yorktown retort punctuates, symbolizing rogue peril justifying NMD against Marbury's treaty barbs.

Before: Referenced as failed but upgradable North Korean threat

After: Remains invoked specter underscoring unresolved security fray

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