The United States will not take over Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said after arriving on Wednesday for a three-day visit to the semi-autonomous Danish island.

Former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said there is nothing that’s stopping the Americans from setting up more bases in Greenland amid the territory’s fight to not be acquired by the

Denmark is open to discussions with the U.S. on how to "fix" the status quo in Greenland, the country's foreign minister said, after Vice President JD Vance's visit.

But after Vice President JD Vance’s three-hour trip to a U.S. military base in Greenland, I’m starting to get concerned that Operation Arctic Freedom could be in the offing.  Vance’s brief sojourn to the autonomous territory,

Denmark's and the USA's foreign ministers are planning their first meeting since Donald Trump's victory and his announcement that he would take over Greenland. The meeting is set to occur in Brussels on the sidelines of the NATO foreign ministers' meeting.

Politicians in Greenland and Denmark have firmly rejected the idea, but the U.S. administration appears undeterred, so how could a U.S. takeover play out?

TRUMP FIRST MUSED ALOUD about buying Greenland in 2018. But a year later, when he discussed the idea in public, Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, called it “ absurd .” Trump responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark. “She blew me off,” he fumed. “You don’t talk to the United States that way, at least under me,” he said.

Vice President JD Vance and Usha Vance will visit Pituffik Space Base, the US military's base in Greenland dating back to World War II.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Friday accused Denmark of not doing a good job keeping Greenland safe and suggested the United States would better protect the semi-autonomous Danish territory that President Donald Trump has pressed to take over.

On Friday, the US vice president was scheduled to visit the only remaining US military base in Greenland. Its history has been peppered with controversy, fueling locals' grievances against Copenhagen.