But he added: “We need Greenland for national security and even international security. And we work with all the people involved to try to get it … and I think we will get it in one way or another. We will get it.
A huge majority of Greenlanders – around 85% – oppose the idea of being part of the United States, according to a January survey.
Danish Prime Minister puts Frederiksen described Trump’s call in the United States to buy the territory as “absurd”, while the Prime Minister Pro-independence of Greenland, Múte Egede, said that his people “did not want to be American”.
Trump previously refused to exclude economic coercion or military force to take Greenland, alarming Copenhagen and Nuuk.
Trump did not repeat these threats on Tuesday, but said that the island rich in minerals is “a very small population, but very, very large land and very, very important for military security”.
The largest island in the world with a population of around 60,000 inhabitants, Greenland is indeed large and not very populated, and hosts an American air base and troops in its frozen extreme north.
“We will keep you safe. We will make you rich, “said Trump, addressing the Greenlanders. “And together, we will take Greenland to heights as you have never believed it before.”
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