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Hey, what's news listeners. It's Sunday, February 9th. I'm Alex Oslo for the Wall Street Journal.

This is What's News Sunday, the show where we tackle the big questions around the biggest stories in the news by reaching out to our colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world.

This week, President Trump has repeatedly talked about buying Greenland. He said it's necessary to shore up the U.S.'s national

and economic security. But how realistic is this goal? And how does it fit into the rising

geopolitical heat in the Arctic region? Let's get into it. It's not the first time a politician

has floated the idea of making Greenland a U.S. territory. But with Trump as president again,

it's getting new attention. WS.J. UK correspondent Max Colchester recently visited that self-ruling

part of Denmark and joins me now to explain what makes the place so special and so desirable

for a country like the U.S. So, Max, what's interesting to me is that Trump said that acquiring Greenland, and I'm

using the word acquire kind of loosely here, is necessary for national security.

What does that mean and what makes Greenland important?

Well, Greenland's important because really of where it's located.

It is right at the top of the North American continent, and it is a vast expanse of

mainly frozen land, very, very large amount of land, and it is a buffer between the US and Russia in some

way. And as the Greenlandic ice melts, as the climate warms, new trade paths are going to open up between East and West,

which will speed trade dramatically.

So it's really in America's interest to have eyes

and a degree of control over this part of the world.

Doesn't the US already have a stake in the Arctic?

Like, what about Alaska?

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