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U.S. Plans III: United States, Denmark to Resume Radar Discussions Next Month The United States and Denmark are expected to resume discussions next month on upgrading a radar station in Greenland for use in the planned U.S. missile-defense system, Inside Missile Defense reported today (see GSN, April 25). The Danish Parliament has yet to decide whether to accept a U.S. plan to upgrade an early warning system at the Thule Air Base in Greenland. Most Greenlandic officials and Greenlanders, however, oppose the upgrade, according to Inside Missile Defense. While able to govern its domestic affairs under home rule, Greenland’s foreign and defense policy are administered by Denmark. In a report released earlier this year, the Danish government indicated that it was likely to support the U.S. radar upgrade request. “It could be in Denmark’s own political interest to respond positively to Washington’s request, and it is not excluded that we in the long term might also want to be protected by a missile defense,” the report said (Jeremy Feiler, Inside Missile Defense Aug. 20).
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