President Trump Won't Achieve His Goals in Greenland by Pressure

JAKARTA - US President Donald Trump will not achieve his goal in Greenland by pressuring Denmark and other European countries, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said in an interview with Sky News.

"We live in 2026, you can trade with other people, but you don't trade people," said Foreign Minister Rasmussen, launching TASS (20/1).

"Denmark has a red line that cannot be crossed," Foreign Minister Rasmussen said after Monday's talks with British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and called on President Trump to move the dialogue from social media to a meeting room.

Previously, President Trump had threatened to impose tariffs on eight countries that sent a small number of military personnel to Greenland last week, following repeated statements about his desire to take over the vast Danish Arctic island.

President Trump said it was important for the US to control Greenland for national security reasons, as well as citing threats from Russia and China present in the Arctic region.

On Saturday, President Trump said he would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Britain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland on February 1, with the tariff increasing to 25 percent on June 1, due to their opposition to US control of Greenland, quoted by Anadolu.

It is known that Greenland is part of Denmark as an autonomous region. In 1951, Washington and Copenhagen, in addition to the allies' commitment to NATO, signed the Greenland Defense Agreement, in which the United States committed to defending the island from possible aggression.