"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the US was having 'technical talks on the acquisition of Greenland' during her briefing in DC on Thursday. "Those talks will take place, I'm told, every two to three weeks, so this is a conversation the administration intends to keep having with the Danes and with the respected delegation from Greenland," she said. "But the President has made his priority quite clear he wants the United States to acquire Greenland he thinks it's in our best national security to do that." On Wednesday, Donald Trump reiterated that he 'needed' Greenland for 'national security', after the foreign ministers of both Denmark and Greenland held crunch talks with Marco Rubio and JD Vance in DC on Wednesday. "If we don't go in, Russia is going to go in, and China is going to go in. And there's not a thing that Denmark can do about it, but we can do everything about it," Trump claimed, while joking that all Denmark had done was 'send an extra dog sled'. Earlier, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen appeared to accuse the US of lying about 'Chinese warships' near Greenland, as he and Greenland's Vivian Motzfeldt held a press briefing. "It is not a true narrative... that we have you know Chinese warships all around the place. According to our intelligence we haven't had a Chinese warship in in Greenland for for a decade or so, so from that perspective it was a very constructive meeting as I said, frank discussion among equal partners," Rasmussen said. On Thursday, NATO countries announced they were sending a handful of soldiers - with UK and Netherlands sending just one each. Earlier this week, the UK, France and Germany discussed deploying NATO troops to the region, which some media reports suggested was about 'easing Trump's security fears' and others claimed that it was about 'deterring' the US president. Trump has repeatedly said he wanted control of the Danish territory since his re-election in 2024, with it triggering debate over Greenland's own difficult relationship with its former Danish coloniser."