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Sarah Shamim

Is Trump trying to engineer Greenland’s secession from Denmark?

Mark Stroh, the US charge d'affaires in Denmark, arrives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen, on August 27, 2025 [AFP]

Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday summoned a top United States diplomat in the country to discuss intelligence reports that US citizens have secretly tried to influence people in Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump, to oppose Danish rule.

Here is what Denmark has accused the US of doing and why Trump has ambitions to acquire Greenland.

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