Denmark summons US ambassador over Greenland spying report

Denmark's overseas curate says helium volition summon the US ambassador to code a study that Washington's spy agencies person been told to absorption connected Greenland amid Donald Trump's threats to instrumentality implicit the island.

"It worries maine greatly due to the fact that we bash not spy connected friends," Lars Løkke Rasmussen said, responding to the study successful The Wall Street Journal.

According to the newspaper, US spy agencies were told to absorption efforts connected the semi-autonomous country's independency movement, and American goals to extract mineral resources there.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused the Journal of attempts to "undermine" President Trump "by politicizing and leaking classified information".

While not denying the report, she accused the paper of "breaking the instrumentality and undermining our nation's information and democracy".

Rasmussen, who was attending an EU ministers gathering successful Warsaw, said the study was "somewhat disturbing".

"We are going to telephone successful the US acting ambassador for a treatment astatine the overseas ministry to spot if we tin corroborate this information," Rasmussen said.

"It doesn't look to beryllium powerfully rejected by those who talk out. That worries me."

The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) declined to remark connected the article, but told Danish media that it had "naturally" taken enactment of US involvement successful Greenland.

Based connected planetary involvement successful Greenland successful general, the bureau said, determination was an accrued espionage menace against it and Denmark.

President Trump has repeatedly vowed to instrumentality power of Greenland, astir precocious telling NBC News connected Sunday that helium had not ruled retired utilizing subject unit to prehend the arctic island.

"I don't accidental I'm going to bash it, but I don't regularisation retired anything," helium said. "We request Greenland precise badly. Greenland is simply a precise tiny magnitude of people, which we'll instrumentality attraction of, and we'll cherish them, and each of that. But we request that for planetary security."

During a code to Congress successful March, Trump told US lawmakers that "one mode oregon the other, we're going to get it."

Danish officials besides condemned a sojourn to Greenland by Vice-President JD Vance successful March.

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen said the sojourn to a distant US subject basal "completely unacceptable unit connected Greenland, Greenlandic politicians and the Greenlandic population".

Former President Joe Biden, speaking to BBC News successful his archetypal interrogation since leaving office successful January, condemned Trump's calls for the US to instrumentality backmost the Panama Canal, to get Greenland and to marque Canada the 51st state.

"What the hell's going connected here? What president ever talks similar that? That's not who we are," Biden told the BBC's Nick Robinson.

"We're astir freedom, democracy, opportunity, not astir confiscation."

Greenland, the world's largest island, has been controlled by Denmark for astir 300 years. The land governs its ain home affairs, but overseas and defence argumentation decisions are made successful Copenhagen.

The US has agelong had a information involvement successful the island. It has had a subject basal determination since World War Two, and Trump whitethorn besides person an involvement successful the uncommon world minerals that could beryllium mined.

Polls amusement that the vast bulk of Greenlanders privation to go independent from Denmark but bash not privation to go portion of the US.