The Danish authorities announce new funding to defend the large island. A few days ago, US President-elect Trump reiterated his desire to purchase Greenland
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The Danish government has announced a major plan to strengthen Greenland's defense capacity, hours after US President-elect Donald Trump publicly reiterated his desire to buy the Arctic country, home to just 56,000 people.
Without providing details, Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen told Danish news outlet Jyllands-Posten that Copenhagen would invest “billions in Danish kroner to improve the country's defenses.”
Defense spending, unspecified, could amount to between 1.34 and 13.27 billion euros.
Trump said on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Sunday that the United States will seek to gain possession and control of Greenland to “purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world”. The comments came just days after the former US president suggested Washington's desire to seize neighboring Canada and retake the Panama Canal.
Prime Minister Egede: “We are not for sale”
In response, Greenlandic Prime Minister Mute Egede declared that “Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people.” He also declared that his country “is not for sale and never will be. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom.”
Greenland has its own extensive local government, but is still affiliated with the Danish Crown.
The country was a Danish colony until 1953, when it was reclassified as a district of Denmark. Greenland was then fully integrated into the Danish state under the Constitution of Denmark, making its inhabitants Danish citizens.
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