(UPDATE) COPENHAGEN — US Vice President JD Vance on Friday is set to visit a US military base in Greenland, seen by Copenhagen and Nuuk as a provocation amid President Donald Trump's bid to annex Danish territory.
COPENHAGEN — US Vice President JD Vance on Friday is set to visit a US military base in Greenland , seen by Copenhagen and Nuuk as a provocation amid President Donald Trump 's bid to annex Danish territory. Trump insisted on Wednesday that the United States needed the vast Arctic island for national and international security, and has previously refused to rule out the use of force to get it. 'We have to have it,' he said.
Vance is 'right in that we didn't meet the American wishes for an increased presence, but we have taken steps toward meeting that wish,' Marc Jacobsen, a senior lecturer at the Royal Danish Defense College, told Agence France-Presse . He said Washington needed to present more specific demands if it wanted a proper Danish response. In January, Copenhagen announced that it would allocate almost $2 billion to beef up its presence in the Arctic and north Atlantic.
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