Denmark vs the US: What Greenland really wants

Donald Trump wants to take control of Greenland , says Donald Trump .

Greenland 's prime minister Múte Egede described it as 'straightforward genocide' by the Danish state against the island's population.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has insisted Greenland is not for sale.

A poll suggests only 6% of Greenlanders want their country to become part of the US .

Two-thirds of Greenland 's population say they want to be independent.

Polls show support of 67.7% for the move among adult Greenlanders .

Expert: "Greenland has now grown up, and our sense of self-worth and self-confidence requires that we can start making our own decisions".

Some Greenlanders are warming to the model of a "free association" with either Denmark or the United States replicating a similar loose arrangement between the U.S. and certain islands in the Pacific .

But some Greenlanders believe that true independence may never be achieved because of these very concerns.

Donald Trump's threat to take over Greenland may have been unexpected but with the trip to Nuuk his team were well aware there was a thread to be pulled at, that his security concerns come at a time.