{"id":20997,"date":"2025-01-28T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/denmark-announces-2-billion-plan-to-boost-arctic-security\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T10:30:00","slug":"denmark-announces-2-billion-plan-to-boost-arctic-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/denmark-announces-2-billion-plan-to-boost-arctic-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark announces $2 billion plan to boost Arctic security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5351447.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Denmark will invest 14.6 billion kroner ($2.05 billion \/ \u20ac1.95 billion) in its military presence in the Arctic, Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen announced at a Monday press conference, DW reported.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows close on the heels of repeated\u00a0statements by US President\u00a0Donald Trump, who has\u00a0said he would &#8220;get Greenland,&#8221;\u00a0an autonomous Danish territory.<\/p>\n<p>Global warming has begun to melt Greenland&#8217;s ice, opening up new shipping lanes and\u00a0making it more accessible.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Poulsen said the investment is to be the first of several, with a second to follow this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Arctic and North Atlantic package\u00a0sealed Monday between the Faroese government and Greenland&#8217;s Naalakkersuisut, or Cabinet of Greenland,\u00a0was about enhancing ship, satellite, and drone surveillance capability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SD\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/227547\/Denmark-announces-2-billion-plan-to-boost-Arctic-security\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark will invest 14.6 billion kroner ($2.05 billion \/ \u20ac1.95 billion) in its military presence in the Arctic, Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen announced at a Monday press conference, DW reported. The announcement follows close on the heels of repeated\u00a0statements by US President\u00a0Donald Trump, who has\u00a0said he would &#8220;get Greenland,&#8221;\u00a0an autonomous Danish territory. Global warming &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}