Greenland’s prime minister says the US will not get the island
The United States will not get Greenland, Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Sunday in a post on Facebook in response to Donald Trump’s statements he wants to take control of the vast Arctic country.
“President Trump says that the United States is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: The United States won’t get that. We do not belong to anyone else. We determine our own future,” Nielsen said in the social media post.
Trump on Saturday told NBC News he “absolutely” had real conversations about annexing the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
“We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump said, according to NBC.
During a visit to a U.S. military base in the north of Greenland on Friday, U.S. Vice President JD Vance accused
Denmark of not doing a good job of keeping the island safe and suggested the United States would better protect the strategically located island.
Related stories from around the North:
Canada: New Arctic security institute encourages diplomacy with the U.S. on northern defence, CBC News
Finland: Finnish Defence Minister tells party leaders shrinking fighter fleet would be “irresponsible”, Yle News
Greenland: Vance slams Denmark for not keeping Greenland safe from Russia, China, Thomson Reuters
Iceland: Iceland’s FM announces defence review, calls revamped security policy ‘urgent’, Eye on the Arctic
Norway: Norway’s Arctic ambassador speaks at Murmansk congress via video conference, The Independent Barents Observer
Russia: Russia launches new hypersonic-weapon submarine, The Independent Barents Observer
Sweden: Swedish defence spending to rise by SEK 300 billion over the next decade, Radio Sweden
United States: Trump’s Greenland rhetoric, VP Vance visit, could backfire on U.S.: expert, Eye on the Arctic
