Overview

• The Wall Street Journal reports that US intelligence agencies, including the CIA and NSA, have been ordered to expand espionage efforts in Greenland.
• The directive focuses on gathering intelligence about Greenland's independence movement, attitudes toward US resource extraction, and identifying local supporters of US goals.
• Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has expressed strong concern, stating that 'friends do not spy on each other,' and has summoned the US ambassador for clarification.
• The White House has declined to comment on the reported espionage but reiterated its concern over Arctic security and Greenland's strategic importance.
• Greenland, rich in rare minerals and strategically located in the Arctic, remains autonomous but is formally part of the Kingdom of Denmark, which has consistently opposed US acquisition efforts.