Denmark announced a major new package to boost the security of Greenland in a move the Danish defense minister called “ironic” because it came just two days after President-elect Trump called for U.S.

Denmark is increasing defense spending in Greenland, said a Danish official Tuesday who called the announcement's timing with President-elect Trump's suggestion that the U.S. should own the territory an "irony of fate.

The new defense package was a 'double-digit billion amount' in krone which is tantamount to at least $1.5 billion, said Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen