Denmark’s King Frederik X arrived in Greenland on Wednesday for a three-day visit in a show of support for the autonomous Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
The 57-year-old monarch waved to well-wishers brandishing Greenlandic flags at Nuuk airport as he was greeted by the territory’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.<\/p>\n
“It is a great pleasure for me to be back in Greenland and to meet the Greenlandic people,,” the king told reporters after a meeting with Nielsen.<\/p>\n
He added that Greenland’s people and wellbeing were “very close to my heart.”<\/p>\n
“They always have been. They always will be,” he said.<\/p>\n
Trump’s threats to seize the vast mineral-rich Arctic island, by force if necessary, have ratcheted up tensions between the United States and Denmark.<\/p>\n
Frederik spent Wednesday in Greenland’s capital Nuuk to start the highly symbolic visit.<\/p>\n
After talks with Nielsen, the king toured a high school and a fisheries company, and was due to take part in a social coffee break with locals at a cultural centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Thursday he was to head to Maniitsoq, some 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Nuuk, before visiting a Danish military Arctic training centre in Kangerlussuaq, farther north, on Friday.<\/p>\n
Despite Denmark’s past as colonial power over the autonomous territory, the monarchy, including Frederik, has long enjoyed huge popularity in Greenland.<\/p>\n
Among the dozen or so well-wishers braving the cold outside the airport to greet the king was a 44-year-old man who told AFP that “it’s good he’s coming here.”<\/p>\n
“There should be no doubt about my love for Greenland,” Frederik said in March 2025.<\/p>\n
An avid sportsman who enjoys the outdoors, Frederik took part in a gruelling four-month, 3,500-kilometre (2,175-mile) ski expedition across Greenland in 2000 as part of the Danish Navy’s elite Sirius dogsled patrol.<\/p>\n
The king, who became monarch in 2024 after the abdication of his mother Queen Margrethe, last visited the island in April 2025.<\/p>\n
He also visited in July 2024, with royal commentators noting that three visits in less than two years was unusual.<\/p>\n
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday she believed Trump still wants to own Greenland despite dialling back his threats to seize it by force.<\/p>\n
Trump insists mineral-rich Greenland is vital for US and NATO security against Russia and China, as a melting Arctic opens up and the superpowers jostle for strategic advantage.<\/p>\n
A US-Denmark-Greenland working group has been established to discuss Washington’s security concerns in the Arctic, but details have not been made public.<\/p>\n
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