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Vance Due In Greenland As Anger Mounts Over Trump Takeover Bid

As the world warms, melting sea ice has made Greenland's location strategically significant (Credit: AFP)

US Vice President JD Vance is on Friday due to tour a US military base in Greenland, a visit viewed by Copenhagen and Nuuk as a provocation amid President Donald Trump's bid to annex the Danish territory.

Trump insisted on Wednesday that the United States needed the vast Arctic island for national and international security, and has previously refused to rule out the use of force to get it.

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