NUUK, GREENLAND ¨C NATO and Greenland¡¯s government on Monday said they intended to work on strengthening the defense of the Danish autonomous territory, hoping to dissuade U.S. President Donald Trump from trying to seize the island.
Trump has been talking up the idea of buying or annexing the Arctic territory for years, and further stoked tensions on Sunday by saying that the United States would take the territory ¡°one way or the other.¡±
Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Monday that the island¡¯s security and defense ¡°belong in NATO,¡± the 32-member military alliance dominated by the U.S.
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