My name is Jeffrey Gettleman and I'm an international correspondent for the New York Times.
If you had asked me a few months ago about what I would be covering right now,
I would have never guessed.
Greenland.
Like so many of us,
I wasn't thinking about Greenland at all until Donald Trump put so much attention on it in December.
He went on social media and said, for security reasons,
ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.
Trump had floated the idea of buying Greenland back in 2019 during his first term,
but in much less direct and threatening language.
Greenland's prime minister answered by saying Greenland wasn't for sale.
But what did everyday Greenlanders think of all this attention?
My mission was to try to find out.
So in mid January, I checked the weather report and I saw that it was minus 20 Celsius.
I got out all my wool and down insulated jackets and I flew out to Nuuk,
the capital, to spend two weeks on the world's largest island.
And soon I'll be reading you the story that I wrote when I got back.
But before I do that, I want to tell you about some of the more surprising things that I heard.
People were a little confused about the US Possibly taking over.
People were worried about what this might mean for their future.