Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen on the 4th urged the United States to stop threatening a "historically close ally" and "a country and its people," emphasizing that Greenland is not for sale.
She stated that the United States has no right to annex Greenland.
In a written statement, she stressed: "I must speak frankly to the United States: It is completely unreasonable to discuss the need for the US to annex Greenland at present, and the United States has no right to annex any part of the Kingdom of Denmark."
She was responding to US President Trump's remarks that the US "absolutely needs Greenland."
Frederiksen said the current defense agreement between Denmark and the US already grants the US extensive access to Greenland, and Denmark has increased its investment in Arctic security.
US President Trump, in a phone interview with The Atlantic on the 4th, asserted: "We absolutely need Greenland."
He pointed out that, given Greenland's strategic location in the Arctic, incorporating it into US territory is in America's national security interest.