The Americans have the Pituffik Space Base (pronounced Bee-doo-FEEK) in northwestern Greenland. Its 150 personnel run missile defense and space surveillance. Its location at the top of the globe, not far from the North Pole, allows its radar to detect missiles in their earliest moments of flight.

Greenland isn't the first territory America has wanted from Denmark. These island residents question whether history is repeating itself.

Greenland’s history and relationships with Denmark and the U.S. have become the subject of heated discussion.

WASHINGTON — President Trump said the United States will gain sovereignty over land in Greenland where American bases are located, taking ownership of those areas. “Yeah,” he told The Post in an exclusive Oval Office interview on Friday.

The last Nazis on Greenland were captured in October 1944, when American soldiers raided a hidden German weather station on the island’s desolate east coast and took dozens of prisoners. Within a year, Germany would be defeated and World War II would be over.

“It’s very disrespectful.”

By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - When officials from the United States, Denmark and Greenland met last month in the Arctic island's capital, the session was reassuringly normal, with no discussion of a U.

"All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago," Trump said.