U.S. Vice President JD Vance announced in X that he will join Second Lady of the United States Usha Vance on her upcoming trip to Greenland on Friday, UNN writes.
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The pair will visit Pituffik Space Base and receive information on security measures in the Arctic, as well as meet with U.S. military personnel, according to a statement from the Vice President's office, CNN writes. The stop will "take place instead of the Second Lady's previously announced visit to the Avannaata Qimussersua dog sled race in Sisimiut," according to the statement.
In a video on X, the U.S. Vice President said: "There was so much excitement around Usha's visit to Greenland this Friday that I decided I didn't want her to have fun alone, and so I'm going to join her. I'm going to visit some of our Guardians in the Space Force on the northwest coast of Greenland, and also just check on what's going on there with security."
"Many other countries have threatened Greenland, threatened to use its territories and its waterways to threaten the United States, threaten Canada, and, of course, threaten the people of Greenland," Vance continued, saying that the goal of the Trump administration is to "revive" the security of Greenland.
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Greenland's Prime Minister Mute B. Egede has described the announcement of the Second Lady's visit, along with a U.S. delegation including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, as "extremely aggressive," which has lowered relations to a new low after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to annex the autonomous Danish territory, CNN notes.