Danish Leader Tells US 'You Cannot Annex Another Country'
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Frederiksen pushed back against the U.S. criticism as she spoke on Thursday alongside Greenland's incoming and outgoing leaders.
From U.S. News & World Report
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who has said it is up to the people of Greenland to decide their own future, called Vance's description of Denmark "not fair".
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Denmark’s top diplomats stood up to US President Donald Trump over his encroachment on Greenland, effectively ending a policy of quiet diplomacy they had hoped would make the issue go away.
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.
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?
After the war, President Harry Truman’s government offered to buy the island because of “the extreme importance of Greenland to the defense of the United States.” Denmark rejected the proposal but signed a long-term base agreement. When Trump ...
Over a thousand years ago, the Viking leader Erik the Red discovered a new land after being exiled for murdering his neighbor. To entice his fellow
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.
The United States is exerting "unacceptable pressure" on Greenland, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday, ahead of an unsolicited visit by a high-profile U.S. delegation to the semi-autonomous Danish territory this week.
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.
How did Denmark come to own Greenland? The Danish-Norwegian kingdom claimed it as a colony in the 1700s, and Denmark took full ownership in 1814, when the kingdoms split after the Napoleonic wars. After WWII,
"American politicians will come in droves and agitate for Greenland to be American," the former diplomat said.