Donald Trump reportedly wants Greenland. Can you really buy a foreign territory that big? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Donald Trump reportedly wants Greenland. Can you really buy a foreign territory that big? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Edited by Explained Desk |New Delhi |Published: August 18, 2019 1:49:16 pm

Donald Trump reportedly wants Greenland. Can you really buy a foreign territory that big?

Although the fact that buying Greenland — if it came to that — would require the approval of both Denmark and the people of Greenland, which seems almost impossible at the moment, the US has, in the past cast its eyes on the icy island.

Homes are illuminated after the sunset in Tasiilaq, Greenland. (AP Photo)

There has been significant chatter in the global media ever since The Wall Street Journal reported this week that United States President Donald Trump had spoken, “with varying degrees of seriousness”, about the possibility of purchasing Greenland