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Robert Mackey

US and Denmark reach security deal after Trump’s threats to take over Greenland

American flag flies outside the red-sided U.S. Consulate building in Nuuk, Greenland
Trump called the new security pack ‘very important, historic, and special’ on his Truth Social. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Donald Trump announced on Friday that the US had struck an Arctic security pact with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland, after threatening for much of his second term to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory by force.

The full scope of the deal Trump described as “very important, historic, and special” was not immediately clear. But soon after his announcement in a post on Truth Social, the leaders of Denmark and Greenland issued statements indicating the deal would be signed by the three governments on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New York City next week.

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