{"id":388216,"date":"2026-01-04T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388216\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:48:10","slug":"denmarks-prime-minister-says-stop-the-threats-of-u-s-annexing-greenland-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388216\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark’s prime minister says ‘stop the threats’ of U.S. annexing Greenland : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks at a press conference in Brussels, Belgium on Dec. 19. She says the U.S. should stop threatening to annex Greenland.<\/p>\n

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Denmark defended its authority over Greenland on Sunday after President Trump and the wife of a Trump adviser renewed calls for the U.S. to annex the territory.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Katie Miller, wife of President Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, posted a picture<\/a> of the American flag covering Greenland on X. She captioned the photo with the word “SOON.”<\/p>\n

Then on Sunday, Trump said in an interview with The Atlantic<\/a> that Greenland could be subject to future U.S. intervention.<\/p>\n

“We do need Greenland, absolutely,” Trump said. “We need it for defense.”<\/p>\n

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in a statement<\/a> Sunday that the U.S. has “no right to annex” territories of Denmark and has told the U.S. to “stop the threats” about taking over Greenland.<\/p>\n

Jesper M\u00f8ller S\u00f8rensen, Denmark’s ambassador to the U.S., responded to Miller’s post<\/a>, saying “we expect full respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark.”<\/p>\n

“Just a friendly reminder about the U.S. and the Kingdom of Denmark: We are close allies and should continue to work together as such,” he said.<\/p>\n

Greenland has been under Danish control since the early 18th century but was granted home rule in 1979.<\/p>\n

Miller’s post on Saturday came hours after the U.S. military conducted airstrikes <\/a>in Venezuela’s capital and captured President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife. Trump said at a press conference that the U.S. will “run” Venezuela <\/a>until there is a transition of leadership.<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in annexing Greenland from Denmark for its strategic location in the Arctic. He appointed Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as his special envoy to Greenland<\/a> last month, which sparked diplomatic concerns in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks at a press conference in Brussels, Belgium on Dec. 19. She says…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-388216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}