As Vance heads for Greenland and Trump threatens to take it, residents voice fear and mistrust of U.S. [Video]

Nuuk, Greenland — Vice President JD Vance will join his family Friday on a trip to Greenland — a vast island northeast of Canada that President Trump wants to absorb into the United States. Roughly three times the size of Texas, Greenland is covered mostly by an ice sheet and has a population of only about 56,000.

It is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, which is one of America’s European NATO allies. On Thursday, the Danish Defense Minister said his country would not allow the U.S. to decide Greenland’s future, but the giant, frozen island near the top of the world has been dragged against Denmark’s will, and the will of its people, into a geopolitical storm by Mr. Trump’s repeated threats to take control.

The U.S. president says American must control Greenland for security reasons, and he has …