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The Thule airbase is located about 1,500km south of the North Pole (Photo: thesetides.com)

Denmark prolongs Greenland-US defence agreement

by Brigitte Alfter, COPENHAGEN,

The Danish foreign minister, Per Stig Møller, and the US foreign secretary, Colin Powell, have renewed a defence agreement from 1951 on a radar base in Greenland.

With the new agreement (6 August), the US will be able to upgrade the Thule radar for eventual use in America's missile defence programme.

The agreement, which also was signed by the deputy chairman of Greenland's government, Josef Motzfeld, allows the US to upgrade the Thule airbase with new computers as well as softw...

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The Thule airbase is located about 1,500km south of the North Pole (Photo: thesetides.com)

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