"As a writer of political fiction for many years, including four seasons of my TV series Borgen, I find myself in the strangest of landscapes watching Donald Trump desperately wanting Greenland like a spoilt child who has never heard the word no. We dedicated an episode to Greenland in the first season in 2010 and then it became the main setting for the fourth season in 2022."
"The modern history of that complex relationship began in 1721, when the priest Hans Egede, with permission from the Danish King Frederik IV, founded a mission and trading station in southern Greenland. The indigenous Inuit people were welcomed into the realm of Christ either voluntarily or by force. Egede remains a controversial figure in Greenland even still, and with good reason."
The TV series Borgen featured Greenland in its first season and as the main setting in the fourth season because the colonial history provides strong emotional material for political drama. Modern relations began in 1721 when priest Hans Egede, with permission from King Frederik IV, founded a mission and trading station and sought to convert the Inuit, sometimes by force. Egede remains controversial and his statue was vandalised with the slogan 'Decolonize' in 2020. Greenland became an equal part of the Kingdom of Denmark under the 1953 constitution. During World War II and the Cold War the United States secured military access and treaties allowing extensive bases on Greenland.
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