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The Danish Foreign Minister says he will summon the US ambassador to deal with reports that Washington’s spy agencies were told to concentrate on Greenland amid the threat of Washington’s spy agencies taking over the island.
“It’s very worried about me because we don’t spy on friends,” Lars Rocke Rasmussen said in response to a Wall Street Journal report.
According to the newspaper, US spy agencies have been told to focus their efforts on semi-autonomous national independence movements and focus on the American goal of extracting American resources.
National Intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard has politicized and leaked sensitive information, denounced the Journal for attempts to “weak” President Trump.
Although she has not denied the report, she accused the newspaper of “breaking the law and undermining the security and democracy of our country.”
Rasmussen, who attended the EU ministers’ meeting in Warsaw, said the report was “somewhat unsettling.”
“We will call on representative US ambassadors for discussion at the Foreign Office to see if we can confirm this information,” Rasmussen said.
“It doesn’t seem to be strongly rejected by people who speak up. That’s what worries me.”
The Danish Security and Intelligence Reporting Agency (PET) declined to comment on the article, but told the Danish media that our interest in Greenland was “naturally” made a note of it.
Based on international interest in Greenland in general, the agency said that it and the threat of spying against Denmark increased.
President Trump has repeatedly vowed to control Greenland, and recently told NBC News on Sunday that he had not used military force to snatch the Arctic Islands to exclude him.
“I’m not saying I’m going to do that, but I’m not going to rule out anything,” he said. “Greenland is very badly necessary. Greenland is a very small number of people and we take care of them. And we take care of them. But that is necessary for international security.”
In a speech to Congress in March, Trump told us lawmakers, “In one way or another, we’re trying to get it.”
Danish officials also condemned Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Greenland in March.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that a visit to “Greenland, Greenland politicians and completely unacceptable pressure on Greenland’s population” was a visit to “Greenland, Greenland population.”
Former President Joe Biden spoke to BBC News in his first interview since resigning in January, accusing the US of asking the US to reclaim the Panama Canal, buy Greenland, and turn Canada into its 51st state.
“What’s going on here? What did the president talk about like that? It’s not us,” Biden told BBC’s Nick Robinson.
“We’re not about freedom, democracy, opportunity, or confiscation.”
Greenland, the world’s largest island, has been ruled by Denmark for about 300 years. The island governs its own domestic issues, but foreign and defence policy decisions are being made in Copenhagen.
The United States has long been bringing security benefits to the island. It has had military bases there since World War II, and Trump may also be interested in rare earth minerals that could be mined.
The majority of Greenlanders want to be independent from Denmark, but don’t want to be part of the US, according to polls.
