"Seoul - North Korea unexpectedly declared during a visit by a former US diplomat that it was prepared to allow international nuclear inspectors back into the country, a network reported Monday. North Korea said it also would sell 12,000 nuclear fuel rods abroad, perhaps to South Korea, according to US-based CNN, which has an anchorman travelling in North Korea with Bill Richardson, a former US ambassador to the United Nations. Scientists could use such fuel rods to obtain plutonium, which could be used to produce nuclear weapons, and Richardson had earlier..."
