Denmark PM says 'you cannot spy against an ally' following reports of US spying on Greenland

Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Friday that "you cannot spy against an ally" successful effect to reports that the U.S. was gathering quality connected Greenland, arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump has continued to suggest purchasing the Arctic island.

"Cooperation astir defence and deterrence and information successful the bluish portion of Europe is getting much and much important," Frederiksen told The Associated Press. "Of course, you cannot spy against an ally."

Frederiksen made the comments arsenic Denmark and Greenland propulsion backmost connected Trump's tendency to get the autonomous Danish territory, stressing that it is not for sale. Trump, however, has not ruled retired taking it by subject unit contempt Denmark being a NATO ally.

GREENLAND'S PRIME MINISTER SAYS ISLAND CANNOT BE BOUGHT, US HAS 'NOT BEEN RESPECTFUL'

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen listens, during a gathering of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) successful Oslo, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP)

"I don’t regularisation it out. I don’t accidental I’m going to bash it, but I don’t regularisation retired anything," Trump said earlier this week during an interrogation connected NBC News' "Meet the Press." 

"We request Greenland precise badly. Greenland is simply a precise tiny magnitude of people, which we’ll instrumentality attraction of and we’ll cherish them and each of that, but we request that for planetary security," helium added.

The Danish premier minister's connection connected Friday came the time aft Denmark summoned the apical American diplomat successful the state for an mentation to a study from The Wall Street Journal astir respective high-ranking officials nether the U.S. manager of nationalist intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, directing quality bureau heads to cod accusation connected Greenland’s independency question and views astir U.S. assets extraction connected the island.

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer talks to Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen during the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) Leaders' Summit successful Oslo, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP)

Acting caput of the U.S. Embassy successful Copenhagen, Jennifer Hall Godfrey, met with Danish diplomat Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen astatine the Danish Foreign Ministry, though details of the gathering were not disclosed.

Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen told Greenland paper Sermitsiaq that the reports of U.S. espionage are unacceptable and disrespectful. 

Nielsen said past period that Greenland "will never, ever beryllium a portion of spot that tin beryllium bought by conscionable anyone" and that "the talks from the United States person not been respectful."

TRUMP SAYS HE WASN'T 'TROLLING' ABOUT ACQUIRING GREENLAND, CANADA AS 51ST STATE

Officials nether the U.S. manager of nationalist intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, directed quality bureau heads to cod accusation connected Greenland’s independency question and views astir U.S. assets extraction. (Getty Images)

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Gabbard’s bureau released a connection saying she had made 3 "criminal" referrals to the U.S. Justice Department implicit quality assemblage leaks successful effect to the study from The Wall Street Journal, which cited 2 sources acquainted with the matter.

"The Wall Street Journal should beryllium ashamed of aiding heavy authorities actors who question to undermine the President by politicizing and leaking classified information," Gabbard said. "They are breaking the instrumentality and undermining our nation’s information and democracy. Those who leak classified accusation volition beryllium recovered and held accountable to the fullest grade of the law."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.