The Latest Breaking News from Mette Frederiksen

“The chance that my fellow Greenlanders might go from one cruel colonizer to another is too brutal to even imagine,” the Icelandic musician wrote on Instagram, hitting out at both Donald Trump and Denmark.

The US President says he wants the autonomous Danish territory for national security reasons

“If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops,” PM Mette Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2.

Washington's military intervention in Venezuela has reignited fears about Trump's designs on the autonomous Danish territory, which has untapped rare earth deposits.

‘If the United States attacks another Nato country, everything stops,’ warned Denmark

President Donald Trump’s renewed insistence that the United States should "get Greenland" has reopened a diplomatic wound between Washington and Copenhagen, reviving memories of the only time the US successfully purchased Danish territory: the 1917 acquisition of the Danish West Indies.

Trump has warned several countries, including Nato ally Denmark, that the US is ready to prove America’s ‘dominance in the Western hemisphere’

The US president's latest remarks about a possible annexation of Greenland have drawn condemnation from Denmark and Europe more widely.

British prime minister says Donald Trump should stop raising idea of US annexation he claims necessary for security

The US president has repeated his desire to grab control of the vast frozen territory

It comes as former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption said Trump’s capture of the Venezuelan president was ‘illegal’ and former attorney general Dominic Grieve described the US president as ‘a serious and significant danger to world peace’