In fact, stability depends on the U.S. being ready to act in places the president-elect keeps talking about.

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

Trump’s concern about the Far North is a legitimate one; he is right to seek a more robust defense against potential Chinese or Russian operations in that region.

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.

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.

Trump's intention marks a rejection of decades of U.S. policy that has prioritized self-determination over territorial expansion.

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

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.

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.

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.