Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Egede said Wednesday he would like to see the autonomous territory break away from Denmark in a New Year’s Day address to inhabitants of the world’s largest island. In an address that was delivered Wednesday and flagged by The Hill on Friday afternoon,

Greenland’s prime minister has reiterated his call for independence from Denmark after Donald Trump suggested the US could acquire the Arctic territory.

The prime minister of Greenland called on the country to strive for greater independence from its mother country, Denmark, in a New Year’s address delivered this week, in light of the controversy surrounding President-elect Donald Trump’s calls for the U.

Trump again having designs on Greenland comes after the president-elect suggested over the weekend that the U.S. could retake control of the Panama Canal if something isn't done to ease rising shipping costs required for using the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Denmark increases defense spending as President-elect Trump calls acquiring Greenland a U.S. “necessity.” Danish officials call the timing “ironic.”

Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede emphasised his desire to pursue independence from Denmark, its former colonial ruler, during his New Year speech, marking a significant change in the rhetoric surrounding the Arctic island's future.