Greenland rejects Trump's annexation claims, PM says ‘We decide our own future’

Greenland’s prime minister responded on Sunday to U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims that America will seize control of the island country.

Greenland, a vast, resource-rich island in the Atlantic, is a self-governing colony of Denmark, a NATO ally of the US. Trump wants to acquire the land, citing national security concerns.

“President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland.’ Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future,” Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a Facebook post.

Nielsen’s post comes a day after the U.S. president told NBC News that military force wasn’t off the table with regard to acquiring Greenland.

In Saturday’s interview, Trump allowed that “I think there’s a good possibility that we could do it without military force.”

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“This is world peace, this is international security,” he said, but added: “I don’t take anything off the table.”

Greenland’s residents and politicians have reacted with anger to Trump’s repeated suggestions, with Danish leaders also pushing back.

Trump also said “I don’t care,” when asked in the NBC interview what message this would send to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has invaded Ukraine and annexed several of its provinces in defiance of international law.