The trip by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to the Danish territory came amid pressure from President Trump and appeared to have been meant as reassurance to Greenlanders.

Denmark deploys additional troops to Greenland after President Donald Trump claims the island is not secure from Russia or China.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Denmark “irrelevant” on Tuesday amid tensions between the U.S. and the Scandinavian country over Greenland. “Denmark’s investment in U.S. Treasury bonds — like Denmark itself — is irrelevant,

A framework is now in place for investigating the "potential and risks" of new nuclear technologies - including small modular reactors - and the lifting of a moratorium on nuclear power, Denmark's Ministry of Climate,

What matters isn’t how much of the debt Denmark owns. The point to focus on is the precedent raised by news that a Danish pension fund is selling all of its holdings.

In the early twentieth century, Danish and American diplomats quietly explored a land swap so audacious it sounded like satire: Denmark would hand over Greenland to Washington, and in return the United States would help it reclaim territory in Europe.

Part of the dispute also has to do with rare-earth metals and minerals, in which Greenland is rich. According to CNN, Trump has stated that the minerals are part of the deal he worked out with NATO. Private land ownership is a foreign concept to Greenlanders, as all land is owned by the people and governed by the authorities.

As the standoff with Washington drags into another week, initial anxiety in Denmark is shifting to irritation. The Berlinske daily attacked Trump’s Davos claims as an “accumulating doom loop of bad decisions”. “Trump surrounds himself with flattery instead of truth,” it added, “and Greenland is the price of sycophancy.”