NUUK, Greenland (Reuters) - 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. (Reporting by Tom Little in Nuuk and Louise Breusch Rasmussen in Copenhagen, editing by Terje Solsvik)

Denmark's prime minister pledged to support Greenland against U.S. President Donald Trump's expressions of interest in acquiring the Danish semi-autonomous territory as she landed in Nuuk on Wednesday for talks with its incoming government.

Denmark's foreign minister posted a video scolding the Trump administration hours after Vice President JD Vance's visit to Greenland.

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.

Denmark's prime minister will visit semi-autonomous Greenland on Wednesday for talks with the territory's incoming government, following U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated expressions of interest in controlling the Arctic island.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced plans for her visit after US Vice President JD Vance visited a US air base in Greenland last week and accused Denmark of underinvesting in the territory.

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Del., told CNN host Dana Bash on Monday that he thinks average middle Americans cannot find the country of Greenland on a map.

The vice president shared a video montage Monday of his recent visit to the Danish territory in which he claimed Donald Trump is "a president of peace."