"For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity," Trump wrote on Truth ...

One reason could be how "massive" he believes the island to be. But Greenland is not nearly as large as it appears on most maps. The Mercator projection—which has been the standard map ...

A Chinese group's offer last year to build three new international airports on Greenland sparked alarms in Copenhagen and Washington. In 1943 US Air Force built its farthest-north air base at ...