Trump's Greenland campaign would face statutory limits if bipartisan members of Congress across both chambers get their way.

The Americans have the Pituffik Space Base (pronounced Bee-doo-FEEK) in northwestern Greenland. Its 150 personnel run missile defense and space surveillance. Its location at the top of the globe, not far from the North Pole, allows its radar to detect missiles in their earliest moments of flight.

WASHINGTON — President Trump said the United States will gain sovereignty over land in Greenland where American bases are located, taking ownership of those areas. “Yeah,” he told The Post in an exclusive Oval Office interview on Friday.

Greenland's strategic location makes it a focal point if there were to be a nuclear conflict involving Russia, China and the United States. U.S.

The last Nazis on Greenland were captured in October 1944, when American soldiers raided a hidden German weather station on the island’s desolate east coast and took dozens of prisoners. Within a year, Germany would be defeated and World War II would be over.

“It’s very disrespectful.”

By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - When officials from the United States, Denmark and Greenland met last month in the Arctic island's capital, the session was reassuringly normal, with no discussion of a U.

During a speech Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump said that he would not use force to take Greenland, an island the State Department says the United States needs to control to counter threats in the surrounding Arctic sea by Russia and China.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will on Friday hold talks with her Greenlandic counterpart after a turbulent week that saw US President Donald Trump back down from his threats to seize the Arctic island and agree to talks.

"All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago," Trump said.