Earlier in the week the White House said acquiring Greenland was a “national security priority”. “We don’t know what is coming to be honest.”When Denmark refused an offer by Trump to buy Greenland in his first term, it wasn’t the first such approach. Photograph: Alex Brandon/APDenmark rejects such claims strenuously, insisting that its recent security spending in Greenland is almost 100 billion Danish kroner (€13 billion). In Nuuk, Greenland government aides say they remain in the dark about the format or even location of further talks scheduled for next week with US secretary of state Marco Rubio. “Neither Greenland nor the Arctic are mentioned at all in the recently published US National Security Strategy,” he says.

Source: The Irish Times January 10, 2026 05:02 UTC