Denmark secretly prepared to blow up Greenland's runways to stop U.S. aircraft: report

Denmark prepared to sabotage Greenland’s airstrips utilizing explosives and flew successful humor supplies amid fears of a imaginable U.S. penetration earlier this year, according to a caller study by Danish nationalist broadcaster DR.

The measures were said to beryllium portion of a contingency program that included deploying troops to the land successful January with explosives for imaginable runway demolition, aimed astatine preventing U.S. craft from landing, EuroNews said.

The measures were outlined successful a Danish subject operations bid dated Jan. 13, which DR said it had reviewed.

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The Greenlandic emblem flies successful Nuuk, Greenland, Jan. 20, 2026. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

The preparations came arsenic tensions escalated implicit President Donald Trump’s connection that the U.S. should power Greenland for nationalist information reasons.

Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen repeatedly rejected Trump’s demands to get the island.

DR said it based its study connected 12 sources wrong the highest levels of the Danish authorities and military, arsenic good arsenic sources among Denmark’s allies successful France and Germany, the BBC said.

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More Danish soldiers onshore astatine Nuuk airport, Greenland, Jan. 19, 2026.  (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS)

"When Trump says each the clip that helium wants to bargain Greenland … we had to instrumentality each imaginable scenarios seriously," an unnamed Danish subject authoritative told DR.

Denmark and respective European allies besides deployed troops to Greenland nether what was a NATO workout called Arctic Endurance.

In reality, according to the sources cited by DR, the deployment was operational.

Soldiers arrived equipped not lone with modular subject cogwheel but besides with the aesculapian supplies and the explosives, the study said.  France, Germany and Sweden besides took portion successful the January deployment.

Despite the preparations, Danish authorities sought to debar escalation with Washington.

Trump announced a vague "framework" statement connected Greenland with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte connected Jan. 21, though details stay unclear.

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President Donald Trump said from Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21 that the U.S. is the lone federation that is capable to power and unafraid Greenland.  (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

At the World Economic forum successful Davos Trump said: "I don't privation to usage force. I won't usage force. All the United States is asking for is simply a spot called Greenland."

On March 17, the commandant of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), Gen. Gregory Guillot, said, "We are moving with Denmark done the Department of State to grow immoderate of the authorities that are successful the 1951 pact to springiness accrued entree to antithetic bases crossed Greenland."

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"As we look astatine the expanding menace and the strategical value of Greenland. But everything that we're doing done NORTHCOM is done Greenland and done Denmark," helium added astatine the House Armed Services proceeding connected U.S. subject posture and nationalist information challenges successful North and South America.