Denmark has sent additional troops to Greenland amid United States President Donald Trump’s threats to take control of the self-governing Danish territory.
The chief of the Royal Danish Army, Peter Boysen, and a “substantial contribution” of soldiers have reportedly landed in Kangerlussuaq in western Greenland.
The deployment came hours after Trump declined to using military force to take control of the vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory, which the US president claims is vital to Washington’s security.
Though Denmark has expressed openness to a beefed-up US military presence in Greenland, but has repeatedly said the territory is not for sale and that any move to take the island by force would spell the end of NATO.
Trump’s insistence that Greenland must be brought under US control has brought US-European relations to their lowest ebb in decades and raised fears about the potential disintegration of the transatlantic security alliance, whose 32 members include both the US and Denmark.
Under Article 5 of NATO’s charter, the alliance considers an armed attack against any one member as an attack against all.
The European Union is reportedly set to convene an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss its response to the crisis, with retaliatory tariffs and the activation of the bloc’s anti-coercion mechanism among the options under consideration.
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