US EditionDenmark King Visits Greenland
King Frederik X’s visit includes meetings with Greenlandic leaders and tours of key sites, reinforcing Denmark’s support amid US interest and ongoing Arctic strategic tensions.
- On Wednesday, King Frederik X arrived in Nuuk to begin a three-day visit, announced in late January, marking his third since becoming monarch.
- President Donald Trump's Davos push and threats prompted diplomatic friction, leading Greenland, Denmark and the US to launch talks late last month to ease tensions and discuss security.
- Visiting Nuuk, the king tours the high school, Royal Greenland fisheries factory, and Katuaq Cultural Center, then heads to Maniitsoq and Kangerlussuaq for military visits.
- Outside the airport, the king waved to well-wishers holding Greenland flags and was greeted on the tarmac by Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, boosting Greenlanders' morale.
- Amid melting Arctic ice and rising strategic interest, Greenland's value grows as a US-Denmark working group forms amid NATO strains; the island hosts 57,000 people and could be independent one day.
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Denmark's king shows support in Greenland
Denmark's King Frederik X arrived in Greenland on Wednesday for a three-day visit in a show of support for the autonomous Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump. The 57-year-old monarch waved to well-wishers brandishing Greenlandic flags at Nuuk airport as he was greeted by the territory's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen. "It is a great pleasure for me to be back in Greenland and to meet the Greenlandic people,," the king tol…
After the great crisis with the USA, Denmark's King Frederik travelled to Greenland. Here he wants to get close to the people and listen to their worries. Some would have liked this gesture earlier. Jana Sinram.
The Danish ruler, one year after the change of the royal coat of arms to mark the island's link between the ice, welcomed by the Greenland premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen
King Frederik X of Denmark began a three-day official visit to Greenland on Wednesday, a move that sends a clear message of support to the self-governing territory, amid repeated statements by US President Donald Trump about his desire to acquire the island.
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