COPENHAGEN: Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said Wednesday he would summon the US ambassador to Denmark after The Wall Street Journal reported that Washington would intensify spying on Greenland, the territory coveted by President Donald Trump.
The article 鈥渞aised a lot of concern, because friends don鈥檛 spy on each other,鈥� Rasmussen said in Warsaw. 鈥淭his is very serious, so we will summon the ambassador for a meeting at the foreign ministry.鈥�
The Journal report cited two people as saying the United States was stepping up its intelligence gathering on Greenland.
Trump has insisted he wants to seize the autonomous Danish territory, saying Washington needs control of the mineral-rich Arctic island for security reasons.
Rasmussen said he hoped, 鈥渙bviously, that this can be refuted鈥� during the meeting with the US envoy, and 鈥渋n any case the aim is to make clear Denmark鈥檚 position on this issue.鈥�