US -American espionage agencies are supposed to collect intelligence in Greenland

US officials have instructed espionage agencies to increase the efforts to collect secret services in Greenland after two sources of the matter, in a sign in which President Donald Trump is apparently geared towards recording the island.

The guideline was first reported by Wall Street Journal.

The move has objections from Denmark, an ally of NATO who rules the semi-autonomous island.

Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said he would summon the American ambassador for the report. “It worries me a lot because we don't spy on friends,” said Rasmussen, according to the Ritzau news agency.

The office of the intelligence director sent a guideline to secret services last week to collect information about the political movement of Greenland, the perception of the US interest on the island's resources and identify people who support Washington's goals for Arctic Island, it was said in the sources.

The guideline came in the form of a “collection of emphasis” that defines priorities for the secret services, the sources said.

James Hewitt, a spokesman for the National Security Council of the White House, said in an e -mail: “We do not comment on intelligence issues. However, the president was very clear that the United States is concerned about the security of Greenland and Arctic.”

The director of the National Secret Service, Tulsi Gabbard, claimed in a statement that government officials tried to undermine Trump by leaving classified information.

“The Wall Street Journal should be ashamed to support deep state actors who undermine the president by politicizing and leaving classified information,” the explanation says. “They violate the law and undermine our nation's security and democracy. Those who escape classified information are found in full of the law and fortune.”

Gabard added: “I referred three illegal leaks to the law enforcement to the Ministry of Justice, and we examine almost a dozen more.”

It was unclear why the administration of the espionage turned to a US ally that could probably be preserved by diplomats or open source research results, said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former career Cia officer.

“This seems to be something that could be treated by diplomatic and foreign ministry channels,” he said. “Why should you waste valuable intelligence resources for this?”

In an interview last weekend with Kristen Welker from NBC News, Trump refused to violate the territory.

“I'm not saying that I will do it, but I'm not excluding anything,” said Trump. “We need Greenland very urgently. Greenland is a very small amount of people we take care of and we will appreciate them and all of this. But we need it for international security.”

In a speech to a joint meeting of the congress in March, Trump said: “We will get it in one way or another.”

A survey in January, which was commissioned by the Dänische Zeitung Berlingske and the Daily SWERMITEN by Greenlandic Daily, showed that 85% of the Greenlanders did not want their island to become part of the United States.

The US military has a basis in the northwest of Greenland, which is part of an early warning system for ballistic rockets.

Greenland has obtained an increasing strategic importance because global warming triggered a competition in the Arctic among the strength of the world. And Greenland's rare earth minerals, uranium and iron are of increasing global interest, since climate change could make these natural resources more accessible.