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Hello, I'm James Reynolds.

Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

In BBC OS conversations, we bring people together to share their experiences.

And this time, we hear from people in Greenland.

Home to just 57,000 people.

The world's largest island has found itself at the center of global attention.

Donald Trump's demands to take over the self-governing Danish territory,

potentially even by force, led to a diplomatic

crisis, with the president threatening economic sanctions against European allies for opposing

his plans. It's the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant

piece of ice, develop it and improve it and make it so that it's good for Europe and safe

for Europe and good for us. After meeting the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Ruta at the

World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland, the present did strike a more consideratory tone.

He said there is now the framework of a future deal. With details of any plan still uncertain,

we wanted to hear from the people caught in the middle. For our first conversation,

recorded before the Davos meeting, my colleague Rahul Tandon brought together three young

Greenlanders. 26-year-old Minnick lives in Greenland's second largest city, Seseemiot. He sells ATVs, all-terrain vehicles. 23-year-old Minnick lives in Greenland's second-largest city, Sissimioot. He sells ATVs, all-terrain

vehicles. 23-year-old Julia, also in Sassimute, works in tourism, and 25-year-old Naya is in the capital

nuke. She's a singer-songwriter. Julia and Naya began the conversation by discussing recent events.

It's weird, actually. It's overwhelming and an almanconic feeling of the future.

Yeah, and I think Donald Trump, in his previous term, he did a lot of talking

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