Shortly after, US President-elect Donald Trump rejected ruling out using force to capture Greenland, and the country's foreign minister declared Denmark’s willingness to engage with the United States to protect US interests in the Arctic.

Trump, who enters office on January 20, raised additional concerns on Tuesday by refusing to rule out military involvement in the Panama Canal and Greenland, each of which he has stated he desires the United States to regulate.

Trump's remarks occurred when his son, Donald Trump Jr., made an informal visit to Arctic Island, which is an independent Danish state. 

Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Danish Foreign Minister, told to the media that the Danish Realm, consisting of Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, is "open to a dialogue with the Americans on how we can cooperate, possibly even more closely than we already do, to ensure that American ambitions are fulfilled."

Lokke Rasmussen stated that both the United States and NATO have "legitimate" goals in the region due to world events.

"As the Arctic melts and new maritime channels open up, we are sadly seeing an upsurge in great power competition. We see that Russia is arming itself. "We see China becoming more interested," the foreign minister remarked.

The senior diplomat urging for candid talks said, "I try to deal with the realities, and I think we should all do ourselves a favour by getting our heart rate down a bit,".

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on TV2 on Tuesday that she believed that Trump in his pursuit to conquer Greenland would ever resort to military action.

"I don't have the fantasy to imagine that it'll ever get to that," she remarked, urging for calm.