The US president says control over the island is a matter of “national security” for Washington

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has urged Washington to stop threatening a “historically close ally,” after President Donald Trump suggested that Copenhagen cannot properly manage and protect the island from perceived Russian and Chinese threats.

“We do need Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defense,” Trump told The Atlantic on Sunday, noting that it was up to others to decide the wider implications of the US military action in Venezuela.

In response, Frederiksen said “the US has no right to annex any of the three countries in the…

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