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The King of Denmark announces he will travel to Greenland: I can't wait to visit in February!
2026-01-29 17:25:59 / BOTA
King Frederik of Denmark told the media that he will travel to Greenland on February 16, amid geopolitical tensions and repeated US demands to buy the island.
"I'm looking forward to traveling to Greenland," the king told reporters during a trip to Lithuania.
The royal court declined to comment further when contacted by Reuters.
Previously, the Inuit, who have lived in Greenland for centuries, said that the Arctic land belongs to no one. As is known, recently, US President Donald Trump has spoken of the island as a strategic asset that Washington could buy, while Denmark assures that it exercises legal sovereignty over it.
The idea that property is shared collectively is central to Inuit identity, they say. They have survived 300 years of colonial rule, and it has become law: people can own houses, but not the land beneath them.
It is a place of raw beauty and harsh logistics. The small dock is the lifeline, where a boat brings supplies from Nuuk every week and where fishermen and hunters set out to hunt seals, big fish, cod and reindeer.
Greenland and its inhabitants found themselves in the global spotlight last year when Trump revived his demand that the US take control of the island for national security reasons and to gain access to its rich mineral resources.
Trump has since dropped threats that the US might take the island by force and said he has secured full and permanent US access to Greenland in a deal with NATO, but many of the details remain unclear.
Locals in the village said they follow current events, but it's not something they talk about much.
Nearly 90% of Greenland's 57,000 residents are indigenous Inuit, who have inhabited the island continuously for about 1,000 years.
Raquel Christiansen, from a family of shamans, said the Inuit consider themselves temporary guardians of the land.
“In our understanding of things, whether you own the land or not is the wrong question,” he said. “The question should be who is responsible for the land. The land existed before us and will exist after us.”
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