Greenland's and Denmark's leaders say the island is not for sale

Prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen of Greenland and prime minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark said Greenland is not for sale. They were answering a renewed push by president Donald Trump, at the NATO summit in Ankara, for the United States to control the territory. Trump also said Washington could pull troops from Europe over the dispute.

The rejection was a political statement by the two prime ministers. It did not describe a negotiation or a price. Not for sale was the position they restated.

Trump separately said the United States would lift sanctions placed on Turkey in 2020 because of its purchase of Russian air defenses. That sanctions comment was made at the same summit as the Greenland remarks. The two issues were both on his Ankara agenda and they are not the same policy.

South Korea issued its first extreme-heat warning under a new system. The warning covered Gyeongsan and Pohang after temperatures met severe criteria. It was a domestic weather alert, not a NATO communique.

Cuba's grid failures and Europe's earlier heat deaths showed how power and temperature were already emergency subjects. Greenland's statement was about sovereignty. The Korean warning was about heat in two cities.

No sale price, troop-cut timetable, or Korean temperature number beyond the fact that severe criteria were met was required to state these items. Nielsen and Frederiksen rejected a sale. Trump linked Greenland to the American military posture in Europe. South Korea added a new heat-warning category in the same week.