President Donald Trump has doubled down on his push for the United States to annex Greenland. "We need Greenland, very importantly for international security," Trump said at the White House on Friday.

US Vice-President JD Vance and his wife Usha are visiting the US Pituffik Space Base on Greenland's north-western coastThe trip has been scaled back from original plans to tour the island more widely, after a row with the governments of Greenland and Denmark over a lack of invitationUS President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to take over the Danish semi-autonomous territoryBoth Greenland and Denmark's governments have rejected the calls, and an opinion survey from January suggests a vast majority of Greenlanders are against the idea too US Vice-President JD Vance headed for military base in Greenland

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will visit Greenland on Friday at a time when President Donald Trump is renewing his insistence that Washington should take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory.