US, Denmark Start Talks Over Greenland Deal to Assuage Trump

Nuuk, Greenland.

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US, Danish and Greenlandic officials met Wednesday to discuss a new framework deal over Greenland, an attempt to satisfy President Donald Trump’s desire to see a greater American presence on the Arctic island that stops short of ceding it to the US.

The senior officials met to “discuss how we can address US concerns about security in the Arctic while respecting the red lines of the Kingdom,” said Oliver Routhe Skov, the spokesman for Denmark’s embassy to the US.