Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged influence operation
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen called the best US diplomat in Copenhagen after a report that American citizens carried out “secret impact operations” in Greenland.
Denmark’s public publisher. His sources said that the aim was to infiltrate the Greenland community and to encourage him to leave Denmark to the United States, but he could not explain who men were working for.
Danish intelligence warned that Greenland has been targeted by “various impact campaigns”.
Rasmussen “attempt to intervene in the internal affairs of the kingdom [of Denmark] Of course it will be unacceptable “and the US accusations were called in this light.
The BBC approached the US Embassy for comment.
However, US President Trump accused Copenhagen of Copenhagen of insufficient investment in the region, Vice President JD Vance, who wanted to annex Greenland, an autonomous part of the Danish Kingdom several times.
During his visit to Greenland a few months ago, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned the United States that you “you can’t annex another country”.
Danish Foreign Minister BBC said that the government is “aware that foreign actors continue to show interest in Greenland and its position in the Danish Kingdom”.
“Therefore, it is not surprising that we experience attempts to influence the future of the kingdom in the coming time.”
Danish is a member of NATO and the European Union and has long seen the US as one of its closest allies, and the Danish was shocked by Trump’s determination to control the semi -autonomous region. The US President said he would not exclude forcibly seizure this year.
Danish’s PET Safety and Intelligence Service, in the evaluation of the campaigns “Denmark and Greenland in the relationship between the relationship between” will aim to create incompatibility “, he said.
This can be done by using “traditional, physical agents or disinformation” through existing or invented disputes. PET said it has strengthened its presence in Greenland and its cooperation with its authorities.
The United States currently has no ambassador in Copenhagen, so Rasmussen called Mark Stroh, the most senior diplomat in the Danish capital as Charge d’Afires.
In May, Lars Lokke Rasmussen called the US Ambassador to the Danish Ambassador this year in response to a separate report showing that the US’s spy agencies were told to focus on Greenland.
DR’s report on Wednesday gave the details of an American’s visit to Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, and said that he was trying to compile a list of Greenland people who supported the attempts to seize the island. The aim is to try to hire them for a separation movement.
In May, reports in the Wall Street Journal referred to more information about Greenland’s independence movement, as well as attitudes towards American mineral extraction.
At that time, US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard did not reject the report, but accused the magazine of “breaking the law and undermining the security and democracy of our nation.
