Nearly half of Danes see US as threat and 78% oppose Greenland sale, poll shows

Narsaq, Greenland. Seventy-two per cent of the Danes said the final decision on joining the US should be Greenland’s, not Denmark’s. Photograph: Greenland Minerals Ltd/Reuters

Almost half of Danish people now consider the US to be a considerable threat to their country and the overwhelming majority oppose Greenland leaving to become part of the US, new polling has found.

The research by YouGov, shared exclusively with the Guardian, comes after weeks of tension between Denmark, Greenland and the US over Donald Trump’s repeated assertions that he plans to take control of the autonomous territory, which is part of the Danish kingdom.