Denmark and Greenland<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWe do need Greenland, absolutely,\u201d Trump himself told The Atlantic in an interview on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Danish ambassador to the US, Jesper M\u00f8ller S\u00f8rensen, responded firmly on X to Miller’s post.<\/p>\n
“Just a friendly reminder about the US and the Kingdom of Denmark.”<\/p>\n
“We are close allies and should continue to work together as such. US security is also Greenland\u2019s and Denmark\u2019s security. Greenland is already part of NATO.”<\/p>\n
Greenland possesses natural resources that include oil, gas, and rare earth elements. Denmark is responsible for the autonomous territory\u2019s foreign affairs and defence. <\/p>\n
Following Trump’s comments, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen urged the US to “stop the threats”. <\/p>\n
“It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the US needing to take over Greenland. The US has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Danish Kingdom.<\/p>\n
“I would therefore strongly urge the US stop the threats against a historically close ally and against another country and another people, who have very clearly said that they are not for sale.”<\/p>\n
The prime minister of Greenland, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said Trump’s comments were “disrespectful”.<\/p>\n
“When the President of the United States says that \u2018we need Greenland\u2019 and links us to Venezuela and military intervention, it\u2019s not just wrong. It\u2019s disrespectful.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Miller, wife of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, prompted a response from a Danish ambassador today…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,64,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-217380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}