Greenland not for sale, Danish PM says after Trump asks US to buy it

Denmark's prime minister says Greenland is not for sale after Donald Trump expressed renewed interest in purchasing the Arctic island as he prepares for his second term as US president.

But in a bid to defuse possible tensions with Trump, Mette Frederiksen stressed that she wanted to cooperate with Washington in the Arctic, even if the US president-elect's son arrived there for a visit.

We need very, very close cooperation with the United States. On the other hand, I would like everyone to respect the fact that Greenlanders are a people. It is their country that is at stake here, she told TV2, adding that Greenland must decide its own fate.

Frederiksen admitted that the world's largest island, which is an autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark, was likely to seek independence in the coming years.

While calling the effort legitimate, she also stressed that she hoped to keep the Kingdom of Denmark intact.

His comments come after Trump reiterated his long-held ambition to buy the territory, putting pressure on the Danish government as the US president-elect's son visited the Arctic island.

Trump vowed to make Greenland great again just before his son Donald Jr landed on the world's largest island on Tuesday in what was billed as a private visit.

Greenland is an incredible place, and people will benefit enormously if and when it becomes part of our nation. We will protect and cherish it from a very vicious outside world, the president-elect wrote on Truth Social.

He reiterated that call Tuesday after Donald Jr's arrival, adding: This is a deal that needs to be done.

Trump escalated his rhetoric in a subsequent news conference, refusing to rule out the use of force to obtain the territory and saying we need Greenland for national security reasons. He threatened to impose very high tariffs on Denmark unless it ceded control of the island.

Greenland became the center of geopolitical intrigue after Trump, first in 2019 and again now, proposed taking control of the vast island, which is home to just 56,000 people but is at the center of the arctic region.

Frederiksen's response Tuesday contrasted sharply with that in 2019, when she called Trump's previous proposal to buy Greenland an absurd talk, leading her to cancel a state visit to Denmark at short notice.

Denmark retains full control of Greenland's foreign affairs and defense and provides it with a large annual subsidy.

Trump's renewed interest in the territory leaves Denmark in a bind as the centrist government in Copenhagen considers how to respond to overtures from its own biggest security guarantor, the United States.

Mte Egede, Prime Minister of Greenland, said in late December that we were not for sale and never will be after Trump first expressed renewed interest in the island.

Ahead of Greenland's elections in April, Egede strongly pushed for independence from Denmark, which would only be possible with the help of outside investors interested in the island's natural resources, including its large land deposits. rare as well as its tourist potential.

Rasmus Jarlov, a former Danish minister and current conservative MP, said Trump's behavior had crossed the line. This is a particular and disrespectful behavior towards Greenland and Denmark, he told TV2.

Trump said early Tuesday: My son, Don Jr., and various representatives will be traveling there to tour some of the most magnificent areas and sites.

Trump Jr said in a podcast that he had no plans to buy Greenland, that he was simply there as a tourist and had no plans to meet with government officials.

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Aaja Chemnitz, a Greenlandic member of the Danish parliament, has warned her fellow islanders against letting Trump dominate the territory's upcoming elections.

Opinion polls suggest strong support for Greenland for independence in coming decades, as the island considers how to wean itself off the 3.9 billion Danish crown (550 million DKK) subsidy dollars) that it receives each year from Copenhagen.

Geopolitical intrigue on the Arctic island intensified over the Christmas period when Denmark's new king, Frederik X, changed the royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland and the Faroe Islands, another autonomous territory.

Trump's new game for Greenland received support from Elon Musk, his close ally and head of X and Tesla. The people of Greenland should decide their future and I think they want to be part of America! he wrote about X.

Additional reporting by James Politi in Washington

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