Denmark calls on the US Ambassador for a Greenland spying report

Denmark Foreign Minister says he will call on the US ambassador to report that Washington’s spy agencies have been told to focus on Greenland against Donald Trump’s threats to take over the island.

“It’s a great bother me because we don’t spy on friends,” said Lars Lokke Rasmussen, responding to the report in The Wall Street JournalS

According to the newspaper, US spy agencies have been told to focus efforts on the independence movement of the semi -autonomous country and the US goals to extract mineral resources there.

National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabard has accused the magazine of trying to “undermine President Trump” by politicizing and leaking classified information. “

Although she did not deny the report, she accused the newspaper of “violating the law and undermining the security and democracy of our nation”.

Rasmussen, who attended the EU Ministers meeting in Warsaw, said the report was “somewhat disturbing”.

“We will call the US Ambassador Ambassador Ambassador Discussion to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to see if we can confirm this information,” Rasmussen said.

“It seems that he is not strongly rejected by those who speak. It bothers me.”

The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) declined to comment on the article, but told the Danish media that it “naturally” had taken into account the US interest in Greenland.

Based on the international interest in Greenland as a whole, the agency said that there was an increased threat of espionage against her and Denmark.

President Trump has repeatedly vowed to take control of Greenland, recently told NBC News on Sunday that he did not rule out using a military force to seize the Arctic Island.

“I’m not saying I will do it, but I don’t turn off anything,” he said. “We need Greenland a lot. Greenland is a very small amount of people we will take care of, and we will honor them all. But we need it for international security.”

During a speech to Congress in March, Trump told us that “one way or another we will receive it.”

Danish officials also condemned a visit to Greenland by Vice President JD Vance in March.

Danish Prime Minister Met Frederiksen said a visit to a remote US military base “completely unacceptable pressure on Greenland, Greenland politicians and the population of Greenland”.

Former President Joe Biden, Speaking to the BBC News in their first interview after leaving the post In January, Trump’s calls to the United States to return the Panama Canal, to acquire Greenland and to turn Canada into the 51st country.

“What the hell is going on here? What president ever talk like that? It’s not us,” Biden told Nick Robinson to the BBC.

“We are for freedom, democracy, opportunities, not confiscation.”

Greenland, the largest island in the world, has been controlled by Denmark for about 300 years. The island rules its own interior, but Copenhagen decisions are made for foreign and defense policy.

The US has long been interested in security to the island. It has a military base there since World War II, and Trump may also be interested in the rare earthly minerals that could be extracted.

Polls show that The vast majority of Grenlari want to become independent from Denmark, but they do not want to become part of the United States.