The top diplomats of Denmark and Greenland will visit the White House on Wednesday for a meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to the Danish foreign minister.
U.S. President Donald Trump has been talking up the idea of buying or annexing the Arctic territory for years and further stoked tensions Sunday by saying that the United States would take the territory "one way or the other."
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told reporters in Copenhagen that he and his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt had requested a meeting with Rubio, and Vance had asked to "take part in that meeting and will host it."
"Our reason for requesting the meeting has been to move the entire discussion ... into a meeting room, where you can look each other in the eye and talk through these issues," Lokke said following a foreign policy meeting in Denmark's parliament.
Meanwhile, Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said he would be meeting with NATO's Secretary-General Mark Rutte next Monday to discuss Arctic security, also together with Motzfeldt.
