The United States has no current plans to increase its military presence in Greenland, the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen said on Thursday, after President-elect Donald Trump expressed renewed interest in acquiring the vast Arctic island.

European leaders expressed their confusion and pushed back Wednesday against President-elect Donald Trump's refusal to rule out using military force to take over Greenland.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters in Berlin on Wednesday that the leaders of the nations of the European Union would not tolerate the violation of the Danish territory's borders,

The Pentagon on Wednesday said it was “not aware” of any plans to invade Greenland if ordered to do so, after President-elect Trump a day earlier refused to rule out using military force to seize Denmark’s autonomous territory.

Officials of the European Union and its member countries are sharply criticizing President-elect Donald Trump’s refusal to rule out the use of military force to take control of Greenland. Trump told reporters at a Tuesday press conference that he “can’t assure” the public that he would not resort to using the military to bring the

Donald Trump says that the U.S. having control over Greenland is imperative for U.S. national security and is not ruling out using military force to take it. Ivory Coast and Senegal have announced that France will withdraw from bases in their territories.