{"id":353602,"date":"2026-09-22T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353602\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:12:17","slug":"us-greenland-denmark-to-sign-deal-at-un-in-new-york-in-bid-to-end-arctic-stand-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353602\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Greenland, Denmark to sign deal at UN in New York in bid to end Arctic stand-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">President Donald Trump was due to meet with leaders of Greenland and Denmark on Tuesday to sign a deal that will allow a larger US military presence on Greenland and \u200ccould end a stand-off over the strategically located and mineral-rich island.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The agreement will allow the US to expand its military footprint in Greenland, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In addition to the existing Pituffik Space Base, the deal is expected to open two new military sites: Narsarsuaq, a former Cold War airbase whose population has dwindled to just a few dozen, and Mestersvig, currently used by the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, an elite \u2060Danish special forces unit.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Greenland, a former colony and now a semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, sits between the \u200cArctic and North America and holds vast energy resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump was due to meet with leaders of Greenland and Denmark on Tuesday to sign a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21389,119070,33293,22625,153,43322,131932,131928,131929,131930,131927,27678,9,56,63,65,64,131931,901],"class_list":["post-353602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-arctic","tag-cold-war","tag-copenhagen","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-jens-frederik-nielsen","tag-lars-lokke-rasmussen","tag-mestersvig","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-narsarsuaq","tag-nato","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-pituffik-space-base","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}