Danish Extraordinary Meeting on Relations With the United States
Donald J. Trump aboard Air Force One on January 5, 2026, where he briefed the press on the "need for Greenland." (Screenshot from X)
On Tuesday, January 6, the Danish Foreign Affairs Committee was called to an emergency meeting about "the kingdom's relationship with the United States."
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen are participating from the Danish government, according to the Danish news agency Ritzau.
The emergency meeting, which will take place at 6 p.m. Danish time, has only one item on the agenda:
The Kingdom's relations with the United States.
Rising tension
The backdrop is US President Donald Trump's suggestion that the United States wants to gain control of Greenland, which is part of the Danish Kingdom. Trump stated a few days ago that the United States "needs Greenland for national security reasons."
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Shortly after Donald Trump violated international law in his attack on Venezuela, the wife of Trump's deputy chief of staff, Katie Miller, published a map of Greenland dressed in the American flag.
With the caption "Soon."
Threats
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) said on Monday that "if a NATO country attacks another NATO country, everything stops. When NATO was established at the time, it was to avoid war and conflict."
On Tuesday evening, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said at the White House that "no one is going to fight militarily against the United States over the future of Greenland."
"The United States is the strongest power in NATO. In order for the United States to be able to secure the Arctic region and protect and defend NATO interests, it is clear that Greenland should be part of the United States", Stephen Miller told CNN.
