But the United States and its partners dismissed the offer as propaganda, largely because Iran had not made it directly, and because Iran would have still retained enough fuel to start building bombs later.
Although there is no consensus view, and a significant number of North Korea-watchers say that visiting the country helps to open it up, I often hear experts argue that tourism is unethical because it directly funds and offers free propaganda to the government.
So certain things I've seen in North Korea were not new to me: collective farms, tightly controlled movement, streets with no advertisements, shops with very little to offer, empty roads, propaganda music and posters on every corner.
But expert analysis of North Korean propaganda offers some pretty good hints.
They poisoned the minds of vulnerable people and their warped and twisted propaganda offered support and succour to a murderous and barbaric terrorist organisation.
This theory holds that a healthy Mr Litvinenko was in no position to damage the Kremlin but his photogenically defoliated body has offered a wonderful propaganda tool to the Berezovsky set.
And the coming generations will pay for our adherence to the propaganda offered by the two hundred year old plus entrenched elite.
The danger is that a President who disparages the data might convince his followers that bad economic news is political propaganda, and offer numbers that have no statistical rigor behind them.
But such groups, while large, do not offer the same unlimited propaganda potential of Twitter which offers extremists the promise of reaching and recruiting from outside their existing pool of supporters.
Wednesday's attacks have the potential to escalate ongoing diplomatic crises, offer ISIS a potent propaganda victory and draw Iran further into the already tangled conflicts in Iraq and Syria. .
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