The President of the USA claims that American control over Greenland is a matter of international security.
I hate to have to say it like this, but we're going to have to have the island, he says in a podcast with the conservative journalist Vince Coglianese, according to the news agency AFP.
The interview was conducted on Coglianese's side on X on Wednesday.
Frederiksen responds
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen writes in a post on Facebook on Wednesday evening that the persistent American interest in Greenland puts Denmark in a difficult situation.
At the same time, she emphasizes, the support for Denmark is strong among European great powers and Nordic neighboring countries.
Donald Trump has, since being elected President, several times in one way or another said that the USA will take control over Greenland.
Already during his first time in the White House, he wanted to buy the island from Denmark, but was rejected.
Vance will "check in"
JD Vance says in a post on X that he will follow his wife Usha to Greenland on Friday. He claims that he will visit the American space force on Greenland's northwest coast, and also "check in on how security is doing".
Mette Frederiksen emphasized in an interview with TV2 on Tuesday that she views the situation seriously and that one "cannot make a private visit with official representatives of another country".
Without wanting to comment on Vance's trip, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (The Moderate Party) says that he and Sweden stand "fully and completely behind Denmark".
Denmark and Greenland make decisions about Denmark and Greenland, and we stand behind them in all the ways that Denmark wants us to stand behind them, he says according to Expressen.
