US to build two military bases in Greenland under new deal with Denmark - BBC

The US, Denmark and Greenland signed a defence deal at the UN General Assembly in New York allowing Washington to build two new military bases in the Arctic territory while reaffirming Danish sovereignty.
President Donald Trump, who signed alongside Danish PM Mette Frederiksen and Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said the US would "immediately begin" developing a large military presence; Frederiksen called it good for all parties and Nato, while Nielsen described it as a "win-win-win".
The agreement appears to end more than a year of tension after Trump threatened to "take" the semi-autonomous territory, citing its strategic location and mineral wealth—rhetoric that drew outcry from Greenlanders, Danes and European leaders.
The pact amends a 1951 US-Denmark defence agreement, permitting new defence areas at Narsarsuaq in the south, a former WWII base with deep-water access and a large runway, and the remote Mestersvig outpost in the east currently used by a Danish naval dog sled unit.
Technical details of the bases must be mutually agreed by all parties, meaning US arrangements are not unfettered; the deal also allows expansion of the existing Pituffik Space Base and bars non-Nato states from establishing military installations on the island.
No territory is ceded to the US, and the deal recognises Denmark's sovereignty and territorial integrity alongside Greenland's right to self-determination, marking a notable retreat from Trump's earlier calls to acquire the island.