The prime minister of Greenland pushed back Sunday against assertions by U.S. President Donald Trump that America will take control of the island territory.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is traveling to Greenland for a visit aimed at building the trust of Greenlandic officials as the Trump administration is seeking control of the Arctic territory.

NUUK, Greenland (Reuters) - The United States will not take over Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said after arriving on Wednesday for a three-day visit to the semi-autonomous Danish island. (Reporting by Tom Little in Nuuk and Louise Breusch Rasmussen in Copenhagen, editing by Terje Solsvik)

Denmark is open to discussions with the U.S. on how to "fix" the status quo in Greenland, the country's foreign minister said, after Vice President JD Vance's visit.

Greenland's mineral riches are an increasing focus of the U.S. and, as the vice president recently warned, America's rivals.

Greenland “deserves partners that respect them” Ursula von der Leyen has said in a veiled attack on Donald Trump who has vowed to “take over” the Arctic island. The European Commission president said the EU stood “firmly” with Greenland and Denmark, which owns the semi-autonomous territory of 57,000 people.

Greenland’s prime minister said a planned visit to the island by US officials, including second lady Usha Vance, is “highly aggressive,” plunging relations to a new low after President Donald Trump vowed to annex the autonomous Danish territory.

President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland highlights the island’s growing strategic value, from rare earth mineral wealth to its role in Arctic defense.

And the vice president’s disdain for Europe, further laid bare in the Signal chat, indicates the Trump administration is not easing its combative approach. “The way Trump is basically insisting to capture Greenland, we can know that it is of strategic ...

The Greenlandic government is calling an upcoming visit by Trump officials “aggressive,” pushing the island further from the United States.