Greenland

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio went to Capitol Hill last week. One subject was Greenland. The Trump administration wants to acquire the island over national security concerns. Rubio told lawmakers that the uproar over within NATO is calming and that talks are underway about how to deal with Trump's demands. APR News focused on Denmark’s 1909 “Alabama Expedition” to explain how long the dispute over Greenland has been going on. The White House’s ambitions prompted a loud response in Denmark last month.

I've been invited to the family home of Astrid Mikkelsen, the great granddaughter of Ejnar Mikkelsen, the man who led the Alabama expedition. We visited her and her family home in a suburb of Copenhagen. The home is full of objects that tell her family's involvement in Greenland.

Donald Trump hasn’t given up on taking possession of Greenland. The White House says it wants the world’s third largest island which is located just east of Canada in the north Atlantic Ocean. APR reports from Denmark on the Alabama connection to the story…