Denmark summoned the head of the U.S. Embassy on Wednesday after allegations emerged that three Americans with close ties to President Donald Trump were running “covert influence operations” in Greenland.

Trump has repeatedly said that he wants to “get” Greenland, a huge, strategically important island, mostly in the Arctic, that is a territory of Denmark.

Within hours of the allegations, published by Denmark’s main public broadcaster Wednesday morning, the Danish Foreign Ministry summoned the current head of the embassy, the chargé d’affaires, for a meeting.

“We are aware that foreign actors continue to show an interest in Greenland,” said Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Denmark’s foreign minister, in a statement Wednesday. “Any attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the kingdom will of

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