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(NewsNation) — Vice president JD Vance said helium volition articulation his wife, 2nd woman Usha Vance, connected a sojourn to Greenland connected Friday.
"We’re going to cheque retired however things are going there," JD Vance said successful a Tuesday video posted connected X. "Speaking for President Trump, we privation to reinvigorate the information of the radical of Greenland due to the fact that we deliberation it’s important to protecting the information of the full world."
The Vances volition beryllium joined by White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Reuters reports. The sojourn comes arsenic President Donald Trump continues to propulsion for the U.S. to take the territory from Denmark.
Greenland's outgoing Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede criticized the trip, calling the U.S. delegation's sojourn "very aggressive" successful nature.
"The lone intent is to amusement a amusement of powerfulness to us, and the awesome is not to beryllium misunderstood,” Egede told the Greenlandic paper Sermitsiaq connected Sunday.
That's a sentiment Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen echoed Tuesday. Frederiksen accused the U.S. of placing "unacceptable pressure" connected some Greenland and Denmark, which is simply a founding subordinate of NATO.
Despite backlash from the tiny territory's leaders, JD Vance maintains that the Friday sojourn has Greenland's champion interests astatine heart.
What volition JD Vance, Usha Vance bash successful Greenland?
The vice president, 2nd woman and different Trump allies are acceptable to person a briefing connected arctic information issues and circuit the northernmost information installation for the U.S. military, the Space Force's Pituffik Space Base.
Operations astatine the basal see precocious rocket detection arsenic good arsenic abstraction surveillance, according to its authoritative website.
Trump's vow to get Greenland
This sojourn each comes arsenic Trump doubles down connected his desire to annex Greenland. During his Monday Cabinet meeting, Trump told his apical White House advisers that power implicit the territory is "maybe successful our future."
Earlier this month, Trump during a gathering with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said, "I deliberation it volition happen," referencing the acquisition of Greenland.
Rutte agreed that Greenland and the Arctic Circle are captious for information reasons, noting that China and Russia person a increasing beingness successful the region. But helium said immoderate treatment astir Trump’s attempts to get Greenland were extracurricular of his purview.
“I don’t privation to resistance NATO successful that,” Rutte said.
The self-governing territory of Denmark is location to astir 56,000 radical who are chiefly from indigenous Inuit backgrounds.
Greenland has affluent world mineral deposits, which are utilized to marque compartment phones and nutrient renewable energy.
The land besides has entree to strategical aerial and oversea routes. Its arctic positioning has attracted the involvement of some Trump and the Russian military.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
