You had to catch a plane to Kangerlussuaq, a tiny town 320 kilometres away and the site of a former US Air Force base and, from there, fly in a hair-raising turboprop. Even the official visitor ...

The American president did not wait until the beginning of his second term as head of the United States to raise the purchase proposal of the immense Danish island of Greenland, in the Arctic.

President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.

A United States Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet taxies to the ramp at Thule Air Base, Greenland, during Exercise Amalgam Dart, June 12,2021. Photo: Corporal Duchesne-Beaulieu ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland is certainly understandable. The “gateway to the Arctic” and location of the Thule Air Base—now Pituffic Space Base—has ...

She also reminded the president that Denmark of course recognizes the strategic importance of Greenland to the United ...

The US has a facility in Greenland named Pituffik Space Base, also known as Thule Air Base. Donald Trump Jr. (without cap) visited Greenland last month to rally support for the US acquiring the ...

While generally welcomed, the US military presence in Greenland has not been without controversy. The development of the US air base in Pituffik-Thule in the early-1950s led to a loss of hunting ...