By Stine Jacobsen, Reuters
Photo: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP
A bipartisan delegation of U.S. lawmakers will meet the leaders of Denmark and Greenland on Friday to reassure them of congressional support, despite President Donald Trump's threats to seize the Arctic island.
Trump has said Greenland is vital to U.S. security because of its strategic location and large supply of minerals and has not ruled out the use of force to take it. European nations this week sent small numbers of military personnel to the island at Denmark's request.
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