The Foreign Minister in Denmark Lars Locke Rasmussen announced that he will call on the US ambassador after the Wall Street Journal publication, according to which Washington will boost espionage in the Greenlandwhich Donald Trump wants to understand.
This article on possible US espionage in Greenland «causes great concern in Denmark, because among friends do not spy on each other“Locke Rasmussen from Warsaw said, where a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Member States of the European Union was held.
“This is very serious, we will therefore call the ambassador for a discussion at the Foreign Ministry. In the hope, of course, that this can be disproved, and in any case with the aim of making it very clear what Denmark’s position is on this issue.“, The Danish minister explained.
According to the WSJ, intelligence services have been instructed to learn more about the Greenland autonomous movement and its positions on the exploitation of resources by Americans on this huge island.
Intelligence services were invited to identify faces in Greenland and Denmark that support US targets on this autonomous Danish territory, the US newspaper adds.
Tensions have been high between Washington and Copenhagen since Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that he wants to take control of Greenland, citing security reasons and refusing to exclude the use of military violence to understand it.
Greenland, with the support of the Danish government, repeatedly replied that it was not sold.
According to a recent poll, in the large majority, the 57,000 Greenland residents want their independence and do not want an attachment to the US.