Greenland votes as Trump wants to take control of the strategic island, AP explains

(11 Mar 2025)
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Nuuk, Greenland – 7 March 2025
1. Drone shot of Nuuk ++MUTE++
2. Wide of houses covered in snow
3. Mid of ice on water

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Nuuk, Greenland – 5 March 2025
4. Mid of ice rock on beach

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Nuuk, Greenland – 8 March 2025
5. Mid of Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede (Wearing glasses and white T-shirt) and his party Inuit Ataqatigiit cheering at the election campaign headquarters
6. Wide of supporters of different parties waving flags of parties
7. Wide of Bourup Egede talking at news conference

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Nuuk, Greenland – 10 March 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Danica Kirka, The Associated Press:
"President Trump wants to take control of this mineral rich Arctic island that sits strategically between Europe and America. Greenlanders, meanwhile, want to make sure to be able to control their own destiny as they debate whether or not to declare independence from Denmark. Those questions aren’t even on the ballot, but it is absolutely on everyone’s mind. In so many ways, Greenland finds itself in a situation somewhat like Donald Trump did when he was a real estate mogul in New York. For them, it’s all about location, location, location."

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Nuuk, Greenland – 7 March 2025
9. Greenland’s flag being lowered

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Nuuk, Greenland – 10 March 2025
10. Various of election poster inside municipal office being used as polling station, people in background
11. Various of voters filling out early ballots
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Danica Kirka, The Associated Press:
"Greenland is home to a base that guards the Arctic and North Atlantic approaches to America. But the island’s location is only becoming more important as the retreating ice cap exposes deposits of rare earth minerals that are vital to the world economy, and melting sea ice opens up as the once mythical Northwest Passage through the Arctic, which could slash shipping times between the North Atlantic and Pacific."

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Nuuk, Greenland – 5 March 2025
13. Drone shot of ship and ice ++MUTE++
14. Various of Royal Danish Navy patrol vessel sailing

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Nuuk, Greenland – 10 March 2025
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Danica Kirka, The Associated Press:
"Trump’s comments about Greenland, which is home to about 56-thousand people, may speed up the island’s moves towards independence. As one lawmaker I spoke with earlier this week said ‘We were always for independence. But Trump has changed everything. And the world has changed everything. And we now need to move much more quickly.’"

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Nuuk, Greenland – 7 March 2025
16. Halo lens flair of low sun above ice
17. Mid of ice on water
STORYLINE:
When U.S. President Donald Trump first suggested buying Greenland in 2019, people thought it was just a joke. No one is laughing now.

Trump’s interest in Greenland, restated vigorously soon after he returned to the White House in January, comes as part of an aggressively “America First” foreign policy platform that includes demands for Ukraine to hand over mineral rights in exchange for continued military aid, threats to take control of the Panama Canal, and suggestions that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state.

Increasing international tensions, global warming and the changing world economy have put Greenland at the heart of the debate over global trade and security, and Trump wants to make sure that the U.S. controls this mineral-rich country that guards the Arctic and North Atlantic approaches to North America.

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