Denmark's prime minister urged the White House to "stop the threats" about taking over Greenland, after President Donald Trump reiterated his wish to do so in a weekend interview with The Atlantic magazine.
Mette Frederiksen said on Jan. 4 that 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."
Trump spoke to the magazine a day after the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Trump said the U.S. would temporarily "run" the Latin American country. The move has elevated concerns again in Copenhagen that the same could happen with Greenland, which is a Danish territory with limited self-rule.
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