United States President Donald Trump said he no longer feels obligated to think exclusively about peace after failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and reiterated his demand for control of Greenland, the BBC reports.
In a message to the Prime Minister of Norway, Trump accused the country of not awarding him the prize.
"Given that your country has decided not to award me the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping eight wars PLUS, I no longer feel obligated to think exclusively about peace, although that will always be dominant, but can now think about what is good and right for the United States," Trump said in a message obtained by American media.
"The world is not safe unless we have complete and total control over Greenland," he added.
CBS News, the BBC's American partner, confirmed the authenticity of the message and its content.
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stjore said he received the text message on Sunday, in response to a message he and Finnish President Alexander Stubbs sent to Trump.
Stjore said they expressed opposition to proposed tariff increases in connection with the Greenland dispute, and pointed to the need for de-escalation, proposing a three-way phone conversation on the same day.
Støre noted that the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by an independent committee, not the Norwegian government. Trump has never hidden his desire to receive the annual award.
He has increasingly insisted that the US must take over Greenland for national security reasons. The sparsely populated but resource-rich Arctic island has an important strategic location for early warning systems in the event of missile attacks, as well as for monitoring shipping in the region, according to the BBC.
Trump reiterated that he wants the US to buy Greenland and did not rule out using military force against a NATO member to take it over.
Over the weekend, he said he would impose a 10 percent tariff on goods from eight NATO allies starting in February if they oppose his plan to take over Greenland, threatening to increase it to 25 percent by June.
In a message to Storr, Trump said that Denmark cannot protect Greenland from Russia or China, and questioned "why do they even have 'ownership rights'? There are no written documents, only that a ship docked there hundreds of years ago, but we docked ships there too."
"I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now NATO needs to do something for the United States of America," he concluded.
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said on Monday that any decision on the future status of Greenland "relies solely on the people of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark", and that using tariffs against allies was "wrong".
Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen and Greenlandic Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt are scheduled to meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday.
Last week, the Danish and Greenlandic authorities, together with NATO allies, decided to increase the military presence and intensity of military exercises in the Arctic and the North Atlantic.
Several European countries have sent a small number of military personnel to Greenland as part of a so-called reconnaissance mission.
According to Trump's recent message, he claims to have ended eight wars since his second presidential term began last year.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
Later, when US forces seized and removed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from Caracas, accusing him of drug trafficking and other crimes, Trump did not endorse Machado as the country's next leader, but instead supported Maduro's vice president as interim head of government.
Machado, who has spoken highly of Trump, met with him at the White House last week and presented him with her medal. The Nobel Foundation said the prize cannot be "even symbolically transferred or further distributed."
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