Greenland’s leader said that, if given the choice between the United States and Denmark, the Greenlanders would rather stick with the Danes.

A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation is headed to Copenhagen later this week to show unity with Denmark amid tensions over Greenland. Sen.

TRUMP could take action on Greenland in ‘weeks’, White House officials have said, as the US president hones in on the Danish island. America’s Arctic commissioner, Thomas Dans,

A US official tells USA TODAY the Trump administration is expecting first steps on Greenland within the next 'weeks or months.'

Denmark and Greenland’s envoys to Washington have begun a vigorous effort to urge U.S. lawmakers as well as key Trump administration officials to step back from President Donald Trump’s call for a “takeover” of the strategic Arctic island.

Trump administration officials are set to meet with Danish officials about Greenland on Wednesday, diplomatic sources tell CBS News.

Denmark has offered the US deeper co-operation on Arctic security, underscoring that Washington already has the opportunity to open more military bases on Greenland than the small one it currently runs. Greenland has also invited US investors to take part in its nascent mining and tourism industries.

The vast Arctic island is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, a NATO ally of the U.S. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and his counterpart from Greenland, Vivian Motzfeldt, had been widely expected to meet on Wednesday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, though the meeting hadn't officially been confirmed.