Denmark\u2019s Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has said on Wednesday that he will summon the US ambassador for talks after a report by Wall Street Journal claimed that American spy agencies have been asked to focus on Greenland amid US President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to annex the island.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have read the article in the Wall Street Journal and it worries me greatly because we do not spy on friends,\u201d Denmark\u2019s Foreign Minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen responded to the article by WSJ.<\/p>\n
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The report claimed that the US is stepping up its vigilance and intelligence gathering efforts over Greenland as Washington\u2019s spy agencies were told to focus on Greenland\u2019s independence movement, and the aim of the Trump administration to extract mineral resources from the semi-autonomous country.<\/p>\n
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In response to the report, a US State Department spokesperson said the department doesn\u2019t make comments on reports based on intelligence inputs and referred to an earlier comment from National Security Council spokesperson James Hewitt, who had said that President Trump has been concerned with the security of Greenland.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to call in the U.S. acting ambassador for a discussion at the foreign ministry to see if we can confirm this information, which is somewhat disturbing,\u201d Denmark\u2019s minister Rasmussen added, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n
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