Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she was attempting to set up talks with US President-elect Donald Trump following his remarks about taking control of Greenland, which Denmark said were being taken seriously.
President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear he wants Greenland to come under US control. We asked our American readers for their thoughts on the matter.
Greenland, which US President-elect Donald Trump wants to annex, is a self-governing Danish territory covered in ice, with untapped mineral resources -- and geostrategic importance.
Denmark gave the US military sovereignty over Greenland in 1941, making it hard to see what more President-elect Donald Trump has to gain from recent overtures, Ulrik Pram Gad, a Greenland expert at the Danish Institute for International Studies, told The Local.
US president-elect Donald Trump has declined to rule out the use of military coercion in a potential takeover of Greenland, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday stated the Danish government’s view after intensified calls by incoming US President Donald Trump for an American takeover of Greenland.
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A meeting in Copenhagen between the prime minister of Greenland, Múte Egede, and King Frederik has been cancelled amid reports Donald Trump Jr is set to visit the Arctic territory.
Donald Trump confirmed Monday that his eldest son Don Jr plans to visit Greenland, two weeks after the US president-elect suggested that Washington annex the autonomous Danish territory.
Greenland's prime minister Múte B. Egede on Monday said the autonomous Arctic territory 'will never be for sale', following recent comments from US president-elect Donald Trump.
US President-elect Donald Trump, who returns to power in the White House on January 20th, has announced a new ambassador to Denmark while reviving a debate from his first term over control of Greenland.
A frozen landscape with breathtaking views, Greenland wants to attract more tourists, but its remote location and fragile environment -- which make it a unique destination -- also pose challenges.
A new runway at Greenland's Nuuk airport that can accommodate international flights is expected to lift the tourism sector, at the risk of inundating the Arctic island's infrastructure and fragile ecosystem.
Despite being covered by ice and largely desolate, football is still king in Greenland, whose players want to compete with other nations, but it remains a pipe dream until they join a continental federation.
A ship carrying 20,000 litres of diesel fuel ran aground and sank off Greenland's coast on Thursday, said authorities who were working to contain a potential spill in the fragile Arctic ecosystem.
A tsunami stemming from a landslide in a Greenland fjord, caused by melting ice, was behind a surprising seismic event last year that shook the earth for nine days, a researcher said on Friday.
Denmark's forced contraception scandal in Greenland has snowballed since a victim first spoke out five years ago with the territory urging the Danish state to acknowledge the trauma it had caused.
A Greenland court decided Wednesday to hold US-Canadian anti-whaling activist Paul Watson an additional 28 days pending a decision on his extradition to Japan, an anti-whaling group said.
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson's detention in a Greenland prison pending his possible extradition to Japan has not prevented him from continuing his fight to save the animals, he said in an interview.
A Greenland court on Thursday ordered American-Canadian anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, to remain in custody until September 5th pending a Danish decision on his possible extradition to Japan, said a police statement.
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, arrested in Greenland on July 21, has "no regrets" despite facing possible extradition to Japan, the head of the French branch of Watson's activist group Sea Shepherd said.
Inuit hunter Hjelmer Hammeken spotted a ringed seal near its breathing hole on the Greenland ice. In his white camouflage, he slowly crept towards it then lay down in the snow and waited.
The Danish autonomous territory of Greenland said on Wednesday it was suspending participation in the Nordic Council cooperation forum due to the discrimination to which it says it is subjected.
