Denmark Opens Talks with US to Protect Arctic Interests

• Denmark’s Foreign Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, expresses openness to talks with the US to protect US interests in the Arctic.

• Trump’s refusal to rule out military action over Greenland comes as his son, Donald Trump Jr., visits the autonomous Danish Arctic island.

• Rasmussen argues that the US and NATO have legitimate interests in the region due to international events like melting Arctic and increasing great power rivalry.

• Rasmussen urges calm amid the new frenzy.