Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made the suggestion in response to President Donald Trump's "clean out" Gaza proposal.

Interest in buying Greenland has "popped up from time to time in American politics," Tom Høyem, Denmark's former minister to Greenland, told ABC News in an interview.

Howard Lutnick, who has agreed to divest his financial interests if he is confirmed, is one of several allies of President Trump who have held or explored potential mining investments on the island.

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others are just idiotic.

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to 200—was that Camp Century was a cover for a secret Cold War Army project. Unknown even to Greenland’s Danish government,

Trump’s bid for the Arctic territory was laughed off as a joke. Now, it’s gaining traction and provoking jitters in Europe.

President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.

Frederiksen didn't directly mention Trump's threat in comments at a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, but said that “we are facing a more uncertain reality, a reality that calls for an even more united Europe and for more cooperation.

A new poll shows that 85% of Greenland residents oppose President Trump's efforts to bring the island under U.S. control.

Denmark's prime minister says she has received strong backing from Europe amid President Trump's threats to take over Greenland. Ahead of her meeting with NATO chief in Brussels, Mette Frederiksen emphasised there was no reason to believe that there is any military threat to Greenland or Denmark.

Donald Trump wants the United States to buy Greenland for its strategically vital resources, to bolster US security and give China a bloody nose.