Lauren Freyer
Appearances
NPR News Now
NPR News: 01-29-2025 6PM EST
In 1917, when the U.S. signed a treaty recognizing Denmark's claim to Greenland, Britain was involved, too, because Canada, Greenland's closest neighbor, was British back then. Tom Hoyam is a former Danish official and Greenland expert who says Britain made its own claim during those treaty talks that if Denmark ever sold Greenland... Then the United Kingdom had the first right to buy it or to...
NPR News Now
NPR News: 01-29-2025 6PM EST
Any British right of first refusal is not in the 1917 treaty, and the UK government tells NPR it has no plans to exercise it. But technically, if Trump wants to buy Greenland, he might have to ask Britain first. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.