Greenland’s prime minister has categorically ruled out joining the U.S. and said the Arctic territory prefers to be in a union with Denmark, suggesting the island is putting independence plans on the back burner for now.
“We are now facing a geopolitical crisis, and if we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, then we choose Denmark,” Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said at a joint news conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen on Tuesday.
“We choose the Greenland we know today, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark,” he said.
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