“Ideas that would not respect territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark, and the right of self-determination of the Greenlandic people are, of course, totally unacceptable. And we, therefore, still have a fundamental disagreement.” “How important it is from our side to strengthen our cooperation with the United States. But that doesn’t mean that we want to be owned by the United States.” “We need Greenland for national security. If we don’t go in, Russia is going to go in and China is going to go in. So I think that it’s important that we show that Greenland is ours and we don’t want to be part of America.

Source: New York Times January 15, 2026 03:35 UTC