U.S. President Donald Trump this week repeated his assertion that American control of Greenland is vital for “international security.” As Henry Ridgwell reports, Denmark, which owns the island, has admitted failing to invest in its security,

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The creator of the Danish political TV drama "Borgen", Adam Price, says U.S. President Donald Trump's wish to control Greenland has created an "absurd" reality that has made it more challenging to write political fiction.

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island. Here’s why Greenland has always remained out of reach—and why it always mattered so much.

One European diplomat told Axios that Denmark was widely seen as America’s closest ally in the European Union, and that no one could have imagined it’d be the first Trump would pick a

Russia once floated the idea of the U.S. acquiring Greenland in a forged fundraising letter sent to Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton nearly five years ago, according to Danish intelligence. Newsweek contacted the Kremlin and the Trump-Vance transition team for comment by email on Monday.

A hardline pro-Putin Russian MP said his country "needs Greenland", after Donald Trump announced his hope to gain control of it.

We need it for international security. And I’m sure that Denmark will come along — it’s costing them a lot of money to maintain it, to keep it,” says new U.S. president.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is once again making waves with his pursuit of Greenland, this time refusing to rule out using force to gain control of the Arctic island from ally Denmark. But Washington had been interested in Greenland long before Trump came along.

and Western powers have already voiced concern about Russia and China using it to boost their presence in the North Atlantic. Egede acknowledged that Greenland is part of the North American ...

"We could make a deal with Trump and split Greenland into a couple of pieces," said Andrey Gurulyov, a Russian politician.

Greenland has deposits of 43 of these, according to an Economist magazine report last year. Thirdly, the far North is a stepping stone between North America and Russia. As the ice melts along the ...