Greenland PM says U.S. will not 'get' territory

Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen is pushing back on President Donald Trump's assertions that the the U.S. will take control of the island territory. In a Facebook post Sunday, Nielsen said “President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland.’ Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future.” Greenland is large, self-governing territory of Denmark, a NATO ally of the United States. Trump has vowed to annex the territory, claiming it’s needed for national security purposes.

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