Greenland's newly elected prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has said the US will not "get" the Arctic territory.

"We do not belong to anyone else," Nielsen wrote on Facebook on Sunday, adding the island's population "determines" its own future.

This comes as US President Donald Trump has repeatedly voiced interest in making Greenland a US territory, saying that US ownership of the landmass is key to national as well as global security.

Greenland is the world's largest island and is seen as strategically important because of........

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