{"id":395285,"date":"2026-01-08T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/395285\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:13:10","slug":"denmark-sees-talks-with-us-as-a-chance-for-dialogue-that-is-needed-over-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/395285\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark sees talks with US as a chance for ‘dialogue that is needed’ over Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denmark has welcomed a meeting with the U.S. next week to discuss President Donald Trump\u2019s renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island of Greenland to come under American control<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the dialogue that is needed, as requested by the government together with the Greenlandic government,\u201d Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen told Danish broadcaster DR on Thursday. <\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had said on Wednesday a meeting about Greenland would happen next week<\/a>, without giving details about timing, location or participants. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not here to talk about Denmark or military intervention. I\u2019ll be meeting with them next week, we\u2019ll have those conversations with them then,\u201d Rubio told reporters on Capitol Hill. <\/p>\n

Greenland’s government has told Danish public broadcaster DR that Greenland will participate in the meeting between Denmark and the U.S. announced by Rubio.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing about Greenland without Greenland. Of course we will be there. We are the ones who requested the meeting,\u201d Greenland\u2019s Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt told DR.<\/p>\n

The island of Greenland, 80% of which lies above the Arctic Circle, is home to about 56,000 mostly Inuit people.<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that Denmark \u201cobviously\u201d had not done a proper job in securing Greenland and that Trump \u201cis willing to go as far as he has to\u201d to defend American interests in the Arctic. <\/p>\n

In an interview with Fox News, Vance repeated Trump’s claim that Greenland is crucial to both the U.S. and the world’s national security because “the entire missile defense infrastructure is partially dependent on Greenland.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the fact that Denmark has been a faithful military ally of the U.S. during World War Two and the more recent \u201cwar on terrorism\u201d did not necessarily mean they were doing enough to secure Greenland today. <\/p>\n

\u201cJust because you did something smart 25 years ago doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t do something dumb now,\u201d Vance said, adding that Trump “is saying very clearly, \u2018you are not doing a good job with respect to Greenland.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance’s comments came after Rubio told<\/a> a select group of U.S. lawmakers that it was the Republican administration\u2019s intention to eventually purchase Greenland, as opposed to using military force.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreenland belongs to its people,” Antonio Costa, the President of the European Council, said on Wednesday. \u201cNothing can be decided about Denmark and about Greenland without Denmark, or without Greenland. They have the full solid support and solidarity of the European Union.\u201d<\/p>\n

The leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the U.K. joined Denmark\u2019s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday in defending Greenland\u2019s sovereignty in the wake of Trump\u2019s comments about Greenland, which is part of the NATO military alliance. <\/p>\n

After Vance\u2019s visit to Greenland<\/a> last year, Danish Foreign Minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen published a video<\/a> detailing the 1951 defense agreement between Denmark and the U.S.. Since 1945, the American military presence in Greenland has decreased from thousands of soldiers over 17 bases and installations on the island, Rasmussen said, to the remote Pituffik Space Base in the northwest with some 200 soldiers today. The base supports missile warning, missile defense and space surveillance operations for the U.S. and NATO.<\/p>\n

The 1951 agreement \u201coffers ample opportunity for the United States to have a much stronger military presence in Greenland,\u201d Rasmussen said. \u201cIf that is what you wish, then let us discuss it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, Denmark\u2019s parliament approved a bill to allow U.S. military bases on Danish soil. The legislation widens a previous military agreement, made in 2023 with the Biden administration, where U.S. troops had broad access to Danish air bases in the Scandinavian country.<\/p>\n

Denmark is moving to strengthen its military presence<\/a> around Greenland and in the wider North Atlantic. <\/p>\n

Last year, the government announced a 14.6 billion-kroner ($2.3 billion) agreement with parties including the governments of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, another self-governing territory of Denmark, to \u201cimprove capabilities for surveillance and maintaining sovereignty in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plan includes three new Arctic naval vessels, two additional long-range surveillance drones and satellite capacity.<\/p>\n

Denmark\u2019s Joint Arctic Command, headquartered in Nuuk, is tasked with the \u201csurveillance, assertion of sovereignty and military defense of Greenland and the Faroe Islands,\u201d according to its website. It has smaller satellite stations across the island.<\/p>\n

The Sirius Dog Sled Patrol, an elite Danish naval unit that conducts long-range reconnaissance and enforces Danish sovereignty in the Arctic wilderness, is also stationed in Greenland.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Seung Min Kim inWashington contributed reporting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark has welcomed a meeting with the U.S. next week to discuss President Donald Trump\u2019s renewed call for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[191243,23,966,793,1576,3,111,21,19,22,20,25,24,964,800,965],"class_list":["post-395285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-191243","tag-america","tag-article","tag-general-news","tag-military-and-defense","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395285","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=395285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}