A ship rides by means of a frozen sea inlet outdoors of Nuuk, Greenland on March 6.

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NUUK, Greenland — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is touring to Greenland on Wednesday for a three-day journey geared toward constructing the belief of Greenlandic officers at a time that the Trump administration is searching for management of the huge Arctic territory.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen introduced plans for her go to after U.S. Vice President JD Vance visited a U.S. air base in Greenland final week and accused Denmark of underinvesting within the territory.

Greenland is a mineral-rich, strategically vital island that’s changing into extra accessible attributable to local weather change. Trump has mentioned that the landmass is vital to U.S. safety. It’s a part of North America however is a semiautonomous territory belonging to the Kingdom of Denmark.

Frederiksen is because of meet the incoming Greenlandic chief, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, after an election final month that produced a brand new authorities. She can also be to satisfy with the long run Naalakkersuisut, the Cupboard, in a go to attributable to final by means of Friday.

“It has my deepest respect how the Greenlandic folks and the Greenlandic politicians deal with the nice stress that’s on Greenland,” she mentioned in authorities assertion saying the go to.

On the agenda are talks with Nielsen about cooperation between Greenland and Denmark.

For years, the folks of Greenland, with a inhabitants of about 57,000, have been working towards eventual independence from Denmark.

The Trump administration’s threats to take management of the island come what may, presumably even with navy power, have angered many in Greenland and Denmark. The incoming authorities desires to take a slower method on the query of eventual independence.

The political group in Greenland most sympathetic to the U.S. president, the Naleraq social gathering that advocates a swift path towards independence, was excluded from coalition talks to kind the subsequent authorities.

Peter Viggo Jakobsen, affiliate professor on the Danish Protection Academy, mentioned final week that Trump administration’s aspirations for Greenland may backfire and push the extra gentle events nearer to Denmark.

He mentioned that “Trump has scared most Greenlanders away from this concept a few shut relationship to america as a result of they do not belief him.”