Greenland leader says his people don’t want to be Americans amid Trump interest: “We want to be Greenlandic”

Trump says he won’t rule out military force to take Greenland Greenland’s prime minister said Friday that the mineral-rich Arctic territory’s people don’t want to be Americans, but that he understands U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in the island given its strategic location and he’s open to greater cooperation with Washington. The comments from the Greenlandic leader, Màºte B. Egede, came after Trump said earlier this week that he wouldn’t rule out using force or economic pressure in order to make Greenland — a semiautonomous territory of Denmark — a part of the United States. Trump said that it was…