Denmark Tells Trump Greenland Is Not for Sale

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at the NATO summit in Ankara that Denmark was ready to defend every inch of the alliance’s territory, including Greenland.

She was responding after US President Donald Trump repeated that the United States should control the semi-autonomous Danish territory.

“We are ready to defend every inch of NATO, including our own territory... Of course we will defend the kingdom of Denmark”, Frederiksen said, reiterating that Greenland was not for sale.

“One of the reasons why we have built NATO many, many years ago, is if anything happens to one of us, then everybody should stand up for each other”, she said.

Trump’s remarks on Greenland have long strained relations between Washington and Copenhagen, both founding members of NATO, although the issue has since moved to a diplomatic track.

(Reuters, mja)