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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s overseas curate had the apical U.S. diplomat successful the state summoned for talks aft the main nationalist broadcaster reported Wednesday that astatine slightest 3 radical with connections to President Donald Trump person been carrying retired covert power operations successful Greenland.
Greenland, a immense semi-autonomous Danish territory successful the Arctic, is coveted by Trump. Denmark, a NATO state of the United States, and Greenland person said the land is not for merchantability and condemned reports of the U.S. gathering quality there.
Public broadcaster DR reported Wednesday that authorities and information sources which it didn’t name, arsenic good arsenic unidentified sources successful Greenland and the U.S., judge that astatine slightest 3 Americans with connections to Trump person been carrying retired covert power operations successful the territory.
One of those radical allegedly compiled a database of U.S.-friendly Greenlanders, collected names of radical opposed to Trump and got locals to constituent retired cases that could beryllium utilized to formed Denmark successful a atrocious airy successful American media. Two others person tried to nurture contacts with politicians, businesspeople and locals, according to the report.
An power cognition is an organized effort to signifier however radical successful a nine deliberation successful bid to execute definite political, subject oregon different objectives.
DR said its communicative was based connected accusation from a full of 8 sources, who judge the extremity is to weaken relations with Denmark from wrong Greenlandic society.
DR said it had been incapable to clarify whether the Americans were moving astatine their ain inaugural oregon connected orders from idiosyncratic else. It said it knows their names but chose not to people them successful bid to support its sources.
“We are alert that overseas actors proceed to amusement an involvement successful Greenland and its presumption successful the Kingdom of Denmark,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said successful a connection emailed by his ministry. “It is truthful not astonishing if we acquisition extracurricular attempts to power the aboriginal of the Kingdom successful the clip ahead.”
“Any effort to interfere successful the interior affairs of the Kingdom volition of people beryllium unacceptable,” Løkke Rasmussen said. “In that light, I person asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to summon the U.S. chargé d’affaires for a gathering astatine the Ministry.”
He added that practice betwixt the governments of Denmark and Greenland “is adjacent and based connected communal trust.”
The Danish Security and Intelligence Service responded to a petition for remark by saying it believes that “particularly successful the existent situation, Greenland is simply a people for power campaigns of assorted kinds” that could purpose to make divisions successful the narration betwixt Denmark and Greenland.
It said it “assesses that this could beryllium done by exploiting existing oregon fabricated disagreements, for illustration successful transportation with well-known idiosyncratic cases, oregon by promoting oregon amplifying definite viewpoints successful Greenland regarding the Kingdom, the United States, oregon different countries with a peculiar involvement successful Greenland.”
The service, known by its Danish acronym PET, said that successful caller years it has “continuously strengthened” its efforts and beingness successful Greenland successful practice with authorities there, and volition proceed to bash so.
