Denmark’s prime minister urged Donald Trump to stop threatening to take control of Greenland as the US president’s move to run Venezuela set alarm bells ringing in the Nordic nation about America’s military ambitions.
Mette Frederiksen’s comments came in response to Trump’s renewed assertion on Sunday that the US needs Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory within the Danish kingdom, for defense purposes.
“I need to say this very directly to the US,” Frederiksen said in a statement. “The US has no right to annex any of the three countries of the Kingdom of Denmark.”
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