Trump still aims for control of Greenland, its PM Nielsen warns

COPENHAGEN — Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen warned on Monday that while U.S. President Donald Trump has ruled out military force, Washington still fundamentally seeks to control the Arctic island. Trump intensified calls for U.S. control over Greenland at the start of the year, citing national security concerns related to Russia and China. Some European NATO allies have defended Denmark's sovereignty over Greenland and said Trump's pressure threatened to fracture the NATO alliance. The U.S. president has since backed away from threats of force and said he had secured total U.S. access to Greenland in a NATO deal, though details remain unclear. 'U.S. continues seeking paths to ownership' "The view upon Greenland and the population has not changed: Greenland is to be tied to the U.S. and governed from there," Nielsen said in a speech to the island's parliament in Nuuk, speaking via a translator. Nielsen said the U.S. continues seeking "paths to ownership and control over Greenland". The island's government said last week it had launched a survey of the population's mental hWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times