One of the highest-ranking Danish officials opined on 14th January that the most fundamental of the disagreements with President Donald Trump about Greenland is still there after meeting with the Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the White House as scheduled.

The two parties, nevertheless, settled to form a working group to talk over their differences as Trump keeps calling for a U.S takeover of the semi-autonomous territory of NATO member Denmark.

According to the foreign policy of the Danish government, “The group must concentrate on the way to mitigate the American security issues, yet simultaneously pay attention to the red lines of the Kingdom of Denmark,” as the talks between the group of foreign ministers of Greenland and Denmark were, in this case, joined by Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen. He also noted, “it is still evident that this is the desire of the president to conquer Greenland.”

Trump is attempting to argue that NATO must assist the U.S. to receive the largest island in the world and that anything that is not under the control of the U.S. is not acceptable.

Denmark, in its turn, declared the intention to increase military presence in the Arctic and North Atlantic as Trump attempts to justify his claims of a U.S. conquest of the massive land by repetitively asserting that China and Russia are the ones who want to take over Greenland, which contains huge amounts of valuable minerals.

The president, who was not present at the meeting on Wednesday, informed the reporters that he was still determined to purchase the territory.

Trump said, “we require Greenland due to national security. “We’ll see how it all works out. I believe that something will work out.”

Last month, Trump appointed Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as a special envoy to Greenland. Landry himself was absent at the meeting on Wednesday, but was to visit Washington on Thursday and Friday to discuss with his officials the matter of Greenland, his spokesman said.

After Trump made his most recent remarks on the matter, Landry wrote on X that Trump was completely correct regarding the purchase of Greenland and that the territory is an important element of national security in the United States.

Trump went to social media prior to the meeting to argue the case that the U.S. needed to be led by NATO in securing the territory. The NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has attempted to maintain a distance of an arm between the conflict between the most significant power and the other members of the 32-country alliance, who have been unnerved by the aggressive approach taken toward Denmark by Trump.

Both Lokke Rasmussen and Motzfeldt provided moderate optimism that the dialogue marked the start of a process that will cause Trump to abandon his request and establish a means of closer collaboration with the U.S.

“We have demonstrated where we are, and beyond that, I suppose we shall have to look forward,” Motzfeldt said.

Denmark is strengthening its Arctic presence

In Copenhagen, the Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen declared an increase in military activity in the Arctic in close coordination with its allies, a requirement in an international security situation where nobody knows what tomorrow will bring.

Some of the allies of the country, such as Germany, France, Norway, and Sweden, have declared their arrival in Greenland and Danish staff to participate in combined exercises or explore additional military alliances in the Arctic.

NATO is also considering ways that members can work together to enhance the presence of the alliance in the Arctic, a NATO official who declined to make the record on record, but she was willing to make the comment anonymously.

Greenlanders desire that the US retreat.

Greenland is also a strategic location since, as the ice melts due to climate change, it will become possible to have fewer trade routes to Asia. That would also facilitate the extraction and transportation of unexploited reserves of important minerals that are required in computers and phones.

Trump also claims that Greenland is crucial to the Golden Dome missile defense program of the United States. He has also been quoted as saying that Russia and China are a threat in the region.

However, analysts and Greenlanders doubt that assertion, and it has turned into a frenzy in the snowy main street of the capital of Greenland, which has been swarmed by international journalists and cameras as Trump further develops his takeover agenda.

During interviews, Greenlanders indicated that the result of the Washington negotiations did not necessarily make them confident that Trump is easily persuaded.

According to Geng Lastein, an 18-year-old Filipino immigrant to Greenland, Trump is unpredictable.

Maya Martinsen, 21, expressed that she does not believe the Trump argument that Greenland must be under the U.S. control as a way of maintaining a security advantage in the Arctic over China and Russia. Rather, according to Martinsen, Trump wants the abundant oils and minerals that we possess, which are unexploited.

Greenland has good nature and beautiful people, Martinsen added. “It’s just home to me. I believe the Americans simply view some form of business trade.

Denmark has reported that the U.S, which already maintains a military presence, can increase its bases on Greenland. The U.S. is bound by a 1951 treaty, which provides the U.S with extensive rights to establish military bases in that country with the approval of Denmark and Greenland.

A U.S. senator is concerned about the bipartisan issue.

Lokke Rasmussen and Motzfeldt also had a meeting with the senators of the Arctic Caucus of both parties. The senators claimed that they feared that Trump was seeking to upset NATO by his push to acquire Greenland; they claimed that this would have been a boon in the hands of the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who has filed legislation to attempt to prevent any action of the U.S. in Greenland, confirmed it was shocking to her that they were even deliberating about it. Murkowski said, “we are living in an era where we are talking about such things that never occurred to us that they were even possible.”

Angus King, the Senator of Maine, claimed that it is absurd to say that the U.S. must take control of Greenland to safeguard national security. The officials were quite receptive to more national security facilities in Greenland so as to accommodate any kind of risk that might arise.