Danish PM tells US ‘you cannot annex another country’ on visit to Greenland

Mette Frederiksen, who met island's new and outgoing PMs, says she wants to cooperate with Trump on Arctic security

The Danish prime minister has put on a show of unity with Greenlandic leaders in her first visit to the Arctic island since Donald Trump's renewed threats to acquire the territory, telling the US: You cannot annex another country."

Speaking onboard an inspection ship in front of a military helicopter, alongside Greenland's new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, and Greenland's outgoing prime minister, Mute B Egede, Mette Frederiksen switched from Danish to English to address the diplomatic standoff with the Trump administration.