CNN says North Korea has agreed with Governor Bill Richardson on the need to permit the return of U.N. nuclear inspectors to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer, who is travelling with the governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico on a trip to Pyongyang, said Monday that the North had agreed to let inspectors from the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency go back to the North's Yongbyon nuclear facility.

According to Blitzer, the North also agreed to allow fuel rods for the enrichment of uranium to be shipped to an outside country, and to the creation of a military commission and hotline between the two Koreas and the United States.

CNN said Richardson, who arrived in Pyongyang last Thursday, has met with top foreign and military officials, including the North’s top nuclear negotiator, Kim Kye-kwan as well as Vice Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho. Richardson and the North Korean officials reportedly discussed Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program and the situation on the Korean Peninsula.