Arctic topper in the new report to the list of risk areas. Hard to keep it konfliktfrit, considers the defence minister.
the Danish Defence Intelligence service (FE) published on Friday with its annual risk assessment, and Greenland is something new at the top of the secret service’s agenda.
The new assessment comes after a year in which the UNITED states has really begun to take an interest in the Superbahis world’s largest island – both with Donald Trumps airy desire to buy Greenland and with the U.S.’s more concrete opening of a consulate in Nuuk.
this is partly why the Arctic according to the head of the FAIRY, Lars Findsen, in the years overtaken the other traditional focus areas such as terrorism and cybercrime.
the Arctic is the last year come up and has filled significantly more. And it is justified, not least when you look at that the UNITED states has changed as compared to the area, ” says Lars Findsen.
In the new risk assessment, as Ritzau has seen parts of, predicts the FE, that it will become harder to balance the desire to keep the Arctic as a region of low tension with the desire to meet the UNITED states.
the Same view, secretary of defense Trine Team (S):
– It is still the government’s policy to maintain the Arctic as a region of low tension. But I think that it is clear to all, that the approach is challenged, she says.
the Problem is popularly said, that Denmark and Greenland have become increasingly a jumper between the major powers nails.
the UNITED states are both concerned about Russia’s possibilities of hitting the thule air base military and China’s alleged desire by investing to get control of the important greenlandic resources and critical infrastructure.
At the defense college researcher Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen in the security policy in the Arctic.
He calls it “super interesting”, that FE now puts the Arctic at the top of the agenda.
– If you look at it historically, the Arctic and horizontally from being a very peripheral area for now, so obviously, to be the most important area for the intelligence services, he says.
Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen whereas the word Arctic is not included in the FE’s assessment of the risk before 2009.
– So it is a fairly fast travel, and it reflects, of course, that it is an area that the UNITED states has an eye for.
– A very large part of Denmark’s foreign and security policy is about to go where americans look, he says.
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