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<\/p>\nDenmark and\u00a0Greenland\u00a0on Saturday said any agreement with the United States would not compromise\u00a0Greenland’s sovereignty, after U.S. President Donald Trump said the deal would give Washington “permanent control” over the Arctic island’s security, leaving its precise scope unclear.<\/p>\n
The U.S., Denmark and\u00a0Greenland\u00a0said late on Friday they had entered into an\u00a0agreement\u00a0for the U.S. to \u200cdevelop a significant military presence on\u00a0Greenland, while prohibiting American adversaries from building their own bases on the island.<\/p>\n
Key details of the agreement have not been made public, including the degree of U.S. military presence in the self-governed \u2060Danish territory and whether any formal power over foreign policy and resources would be ceded to Washington.<\/p>\n
Denmark and\u00a0Greenland\u00a0expressed hope that a deal, which is expected to be signed during the United Nations General Assembly next week, would end months of uncertainty triggered by\u00a0Trump’s threats\u00a0to seize control of\u00a0Greenland. Parliamentary action is still needed by the governments of Denmark and Greenland before it can be enforced. <\/p>\n
“Next week could be a good week \u2014 for\u00a0Greenland, Denmark, and the United States,” Danish Foreign Affairs Minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen said in a statement posted on Facebook on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“A time of uncertainty will hopefully give way to a binding agreement that strengthens security in the Arctic and the North Atlantic, and thereby our shared security within NATO and Europe \u2014 while respecting the [Danish] Kingdom’s red lines,” Rasmussen said.<\/p>\n
But some residents in\u00a0Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, expressed skepticism about closer ties with Washington.<\/p>\n
“The U.S. should not control\u00a0Greenland. I think it’s better if we have co-operation with NATO,” said Jakob Ludvigsen, 65.<\/p>\n
“Trump should stay far, far, far away from\u00a0Greenland,” Marianne Hansen, a 71-year-old retired chef, told Reuters in Nuuk. “He should not expect our children and grandchildren to become Americans in the future.”<\/p>\n
Denmark and the U.S. already have a long-standing security agreement that allows the U.S. to deploy forces in Greenland, and it was not immediately clear how this deal would be different from that.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s obvious that we can expect more bases in Greenland. But it’s important to say that if we look in the past, especially during the Cold War, the U.S. had immense military presence in Greenland,” said Marc Jacobsen, an associate professor at the Royal Danish Defence College and the head of research at the Center for Arctic Security Studies.<\/p>\n
WATCH | Trump says deal struck with Denmark over Greenland:<\/p>\n
Deal struck to boost U.S. military presence in Greenland: Trump<\/p>\n
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States and Denmark have struck a deal to bolster American military presence in Greenland. The announcement, which Trump made in a Truth Social post, comes after months of threats by the president to take the mineral-rich Danish territory by force.<\/p>\n
Denmark and\u00a0Greenland\u00a0have repeatedly insisted that Washington respect the sovereignty of the Danish kingdom and accept that\u00a0Greenland\u00a0is not for sale.<\/p>\n
Trump said on his Truth Social platform late on Friday that under a deal, “the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in\u00a0Greenland\u00a0in order to secure and defend the security of\u00a0Greenland, and the United States of America.”<\/p>\n
The deal “gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in\u00a0Greenland,” he said, adding that no adversary would ever be permitted to have a base or military presence in\u00a0Greenland, or make sensitive investments there, without Washington’s express written approval.<\/p>\n
NATO welcomes agreement<\/p>\n
Trump made the announcement after Reuters exclusively reported that the U.S. and Denmark were closing in on a deal.<\/p>\n
“This is probably not the end of President Trump\u2019s ambitions for\u00a0Greenland\u00a0and certainly not the end of U.S. strategic interest in the territory and its resources,” said Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, a political science professor at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark’s capital.<\/p>\n
If the Danish government cedes any formal power to Washington, it raises the question in\u00a0Greenland\u00a0of whether “this is the beginning of replacing the colonial relationship with Denmark with a colonial relationship to the United States,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I am pleased on\u00a0Greenland’s behalf that we are nearing the conclusion of an agreement \u2014 an agreement that benefits not only our collective security but also the continued development of this country,”\u00a0Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Greenland’s prime minister, said on Saturday in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n
“The agreement recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our Kingdom and the right of the\u00a0Greenlandic people to self-determination.”<\/p>\n
WATCH | Trump posts map showing U.S. flag covering North America, Greenland and Iceland:![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789846332_370_default.jpg\")
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Does Iceland feel threatened by Trump’s expansionist threats? | Hanomansing Tonight<\/p>\n
Iceland summoned the U.S. ambassador after President Donald Trump posted a map showing the U.S. flag covering North America, Greenland and Iceland. Magn\u00fas Eyj\u00f3lfsson, a journalist with national broadcaster R\u00daV, discusses how Icelanders are reacting to Trump\u2019s expansionist rhetoric and why his recent threats to take over Greenland hit particularly close to home.<\/p>\n
Trump’s threats, which peaked in January, triggered a diplomatic crisis that strained relations within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and pushed Denmark and\u00a0Greenland\u00a0into\u00a0negotiations\u00a0aimed at defusing the pressure.<\/p>\n
A NATO spokesperson on Saturday said the alliance welcomed the agreement, which would “help advance security, stability and co-operation in this vital region.”<\/p>\n
Steffen Nielsen, a 49-year-old sales worker living in Copenhagen, told Reuters: “I think that the U.S. is probably going to get what they could have had the whole time, if they just asked nicely.”<\/p>\n
“I don’t like it,” Kaj Jorgensen, an 80-year-old pensioner, also living in Copenhagen, said of the news. “I don’t wish the United States to be present anywhere in the Danish Kingdom. I really don’t trust Donald Trump.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark and\u00a0Greenland\u00a0on Saturday said any agreement with the United States would not compromise\u00a0Greenland’s sovereignty, after U.S. President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-902021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}