Greenlanders put faith in Europe's troops and US Congress

NUUK — Greenlanders were putting cautious hope in all-out efforts to contain U.S. President Donald Trump's designs on their Arctic island, as European soldiers arrived in their streets and U.S. lawmakers visited Denmark. In this vast territory that has never fought a war of its own, the 57,000 inhabitants say that, alone, they feel helpless against the leader of a world superpower who insists he will take their home "one way or the other". "I feel safer," Marie Sofie Pedersen, a social worker for the city of Nuuk, Greenland's capital, said after the soldiers from countries including France and Germany arrived. "I hope they won't stay here forever, but just as long as we're vulnerable and something could happen," she told AFP between puffs of her cigarette. A modest number of military personnel were deployed this week by a handful of European countries after Trump said he wants to seize the autonomous Danish territory. Trump has insisted the United States needs strategically-located and mineral-rich Greenland for "national security", and has criticised Denmark for — he says — not doiWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times