Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Sunday (January 4, 2025) urged U.S. President Donald Trump to stop threatening to take over Greenland, after he reiterated his wish to do so in an interview with The Atlantic magazine.
“It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the U.S. needing to take over Greenland. The U.S. has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Danish Kingdom,” Ms. Frederiksen said in a statement on Sunday (January 4).
Mr. Trump told the magazine: “We do need Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defense.”
He spoke a day after the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the president said Washington would run the Latin American country.
This raised concerns in Denmark that the same could happen with Greenland, a Danish territory.
