US president Donald Trump has suggested he may punish countries with tariffs if they do not back the US controlling Greenland.
His message came as a US congressional delegation met Danish and Greenlandic politicians in Copenhagen and sought to lower tensions.
Mr Trump for months has insisted that the US should control Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Nato ally Denmark, and said earlier this week that anything less than the Arctic island being in US hands would be “unacceptable”.
During an unrelated event at the White House on Friday about rural healthcare, he recounted how he had threatened European allies with tariffs on pharmaceuticals.
“I may do that for Greenland…