Friday, August 14
The tensions touched off by President Donald Trump's demand for U.S. ownership of Greenland deepened Thursday after Denmark and the White House contradicted each other in public about what the two sides had agreed on in a meeting hosted by Vice President JD Vance the day before. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters that a delegation from Denmark and Greenland had agreed "to continue to have technical talks on the acquisition of Greenland." Denmark's foreign minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, said the agreement at Wednesday's meeting had in fact been "to launch a high-level working group to explore if a common way forward can be found to address the American security concerns in relation to Greenland." U.S. ownership of Greenland remained a red line for Denmark, Ra
