JD Vance accompany the wife to Greenland against the background of the background

US Vice President JD Vance will join his wife Usha while traveling to Greenland on Friday, a visit followed by Donald Trump’s threats to capture the island.

The couples will go to the Pituffik space base to get a briefing on Arctic security and meet with US forces located there, the White House reports.

Usha Vens planned to go to the territory of the Danish cultural visit before her husband announced her plans. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is also ready to visit a separate trip this week.

Officials in Greenland cruelly criticized the planned visits as disrespectful.

Greenland is the largest island located between the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean – controlled by Denmark, almost 3000 km (1860 miles), about 300 years.

It regulates its own internal affairs, but decisions on foreign and defense policy are made in Copenhagen. In the United States, it has long been engaged in security and military presence from World War II.

Pituffik space base, located northwest of Greenland, supports rocket warnings, air defense and space supervision missions.

In the video posted on the social media X platform, Vnes said there was a lot of excitement around his wife’s trip to Greenland. He joins her because “he didn’t want her to have fun.”

He said that the visit to the military installation was to check the security of the island, because “many other countries threatened Greenland, threatened to use their territories and waterways to threaten the United States, threaten Canada and, of course, threaten Greenland.”

He added that Trump’s administration wants to “intensify the security of Greenland residents” and that the US and Denmark ignored it “too long”.

It is unclear whether Mike Waltz is planned to visit. BBC turned to the White House to confirm.

D -Ryan Ryan Menes, the founder and head of the polar research and political initiative, the analytical center based in London, criticized the visit.

He said he was “very unusual” that a delegation of high-level American officials was visiting Greenland without inviting, especially after national elections in the country where the parties are still negotiating the formation of the next government.

The US’s interest in Greenland’s security, given its strategic importance, makes sense, he said. But he added that for Washington it is “inexplicable” to accept such an aggressive approach, especially in the light of Trump’s comments on the acquisition of the territory.

“Responding Greenland residents, saying that the US is acquiring it” one way or another “is not custom and counterproductive as tactics,” he added.

According to recent polls, almost 80% of the Greenlanders returned independence from Denmark. But in January, a survey proposed an even greater number rejected the idea of ​​becoming part of the United States.