Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Wednesday she had spoken on the phone with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and told him that it is up to Greenland itself to decide on any independence.

When President-elect Donald Trump mused about buying Greenland from Denmark during his first administration, the Danish prime minister called the idea “absurd” and rebuffed him outright.

After a long history of colonial oppression from Denmark, Greenland’s 57,000 inhabitants now face a fresh assault, writes chair of the Danish Communist Party LOTTE RORTOFT-MADSEN, as the US empire eye

The U.S. ally is signaling its willingness to negotiate military and economic matters related to the island but not to sell it.

Trump’s talk of acquiring the island has raised the profile of Greenland, but it has also prompted some anxieties