Greenland's Head of Government (Naalakkersuisut) Jens-Frederik Nielsen (L) and Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen springiness a connection connected the existent concern astatine a property league successful the Mirror Hall astatine the Prime Minister's Office successful Copenhagen, Denmark, connected January 13, 2026.
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Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said connected Tuesday that the Arctic land chooses Denmark implicit the U.S., pushing backmost against Donald Trump's repeated takeover threats.
"If we person to take betwixt the USA and Denmark present and now, we take Denmark. We take NATO, the Kingdom of Denmark and the EU," Nielsen said, according to translated comments reported by Danish nationalist broadcaster DR. He was speaking alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen astatine a quality league successful Copenhagen, up of crunch talks betwixt U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials astatine the White House connected Wednesday.
"The clip has travel to basal together," Nielsen added.
"It has not been casual to basal up to wholly unacceptable unit from our closest allies for a lifetime. But determination is overmuch to suggest that the hardest portion is inactive up of us," Frederiksen said.
Trump's renewed involvement successful acquiring Greenland follows an audacious U.S. subject cognition to prehend Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro connected Jan. 3.
Trump has said the U.S. needs the sparsely populated Arctic land to forestall Russia and China from doing the same, telling reporters that Washington would get the self-governing Danish territory "one mode oregon the other."
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