 Obama also increased funding to clean up unexploded ordnance in Laos.North Korea is a major trouble area, especially regarding nuclear weapons and threats of military action.Not long after Obama took office North Korea elbowed its way back onto the international stage after a period of relative quiet, drawing accusations of planning a new long-range intercontinental ballistic missile test weeks after Obama was sworn in and performing an unannounced nuclear warhead and missile testing in late May 2009 to the disapproval of the State Department.