COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Leaders of Denmark and Greenland insisted Thursday that the island’s sovereignty was non-negotiable after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had agreed with the NATO chief on the framework of a future Arctic security deal that Trump said would grant the U.S. “total access” to the territory. Much about the potential deal remained unclear, though Trump said in a Fox Business interview that “we’re going to have total access to Greenland,” a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark. He added that “we’re going to have all the military access we want.” NATO spokesperson Allison Hart said the alliance’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, did not propose any “compromise to sovereignty” in discussions with Trump. Trump, who has repeatedly argued that the U.S. needed Greenland to counter threats from Russia and China, on Wednesday abruptly scrapped the tariffs he had threatened to impose on eight European nations to press for U.S. control over Greenland. It was a dramatic reversal hours after he insisted he wanted to get the island “including right, t
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