Vance and wife to tour US military post in Greenland after diplomatic spat

Vance and wife to tour US military post in Greenland after diplomatic spat
Vice president JD Vance leaves after speaking at the Congressional Cities Conference of the National League of Cities (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

US vice president JD Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar by Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them.

The couple’s revised trip to the semi-autonomous Danish territory comes as relations between the US and the Nordic country have soured after US President Donald Trump repeatedly suggested that the United States should, in some form, control the mineral-rich territory of Denmark — a traditional US ally and Nato member.

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