“Any attempt to interfere in teh internal affairs of the Kingdom will, of course, be unacceptable.”
Frederiksen said at a press conference that the government was looking “very seriously” at the matter. The White House has not yet commented.
The Danish Broadcasting Corporation, known as DR, reported on Wednesday that several Danish government sources confirmed that at least three American men with ties to the US president and the White House had been active in Greenland in a covert operation.
One of the reporters, Niels fastrup, told British podcast The News Agents that the goal was to break Greenland free of Denmark to enable a US takeover.
“What our sources described to us is a pattern of travel activity where you would have these US individuals going between the US and Greenland,” he said.
“And when in Greenland, they would work in a clandestine fashion to try to set up what you could describe as a Greenlandic liberation movement.
“The tasks being done, according to our sources, involve things like working out lists of Greenlanders sympathetic towards Donald Trump’s plans for taking over Greenland.
“It also involves the opposite: trying to identify people against this.”
Fastrup said the operation also sought to create stories that could increase division between Denmark and Greenland, but he was cautious not to say whether or not this was directed by the White House.
“We are not at present able to establish whether they are working on their own or on behalf of donald Trump directly,” he said on the podcast.