Greenland’s prime minister weighed in on President-elect Trump’s proposal to acquire the island territory, arguing that the nation intends to keep working toward independence from Denmark.

President-elect Trump’s talk of taking over or acquiring Greenland is highlighting bipartisan talks about the need to increase security around the Arctic nation and boost defenses in the

Donald Trump Jr. is visiting Greenland just weeks after his father President-elect Donald Trump called for US ownership of the island. CNN International Correspondent Fred Pleitgen explains why Trump is interested in buying the autonomous arctic territory - which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark - and what strategic importance it would bring the US.

Trump’s fixation on Greenland is particularly odd, though not new. Back in 2018, he offered to buy it from Denmark, which controls the large, icy island as an autonomous territory. He was outraged when the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, turned him down, calling her “ nasty ” and canceling a state visit to Copenhagen.

See what the president said about possible military intervention to acquire the territory DONALD Trump made his controversial desire to buy Greenland known during his first presidential term.

Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is advising the world not to waste a lot of time on what President-elect Donald Trump has been saying about Greenland.

The world’s largest island, which sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans and is 80% covered by ice, is an autonomous territory that’s part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Interest in the vast, ice-covered island reflects global scramble for the Arctic.

President-elect Donald Trump has said multiple times that the U.S. should buy Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. The sparsely populated island is geopolitically important and mineral-rich.

US President-elect Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump, Jr., visited Greenland on Tuesday, while his father refused to rule out military or economic coercion as a means to purchase the mineral and oil-rich island.