Kuala Lampur, Jan. 10 -- President Donald Trump says the US needs to "own" Greenland to prevent Russia and China from doing so.

By Trump's own admission then, the US does not own Greenland.

So, who owns Greenland?

The short answer is the Kingdom of Denmark. Yes, Denmark is a kingdom, and a sovereign state.

The Danish claim to Greenland is unimpeachable, according to Marc Weller, Professor of International, Director of the International Law Programme at Chatham House, Professor in the University of Cambridge and a former senior UN mediation expert.

A brief history of the Danish claim to Greenland can be read here.

Post 1945 when the United Nations (UN) was founded, Professor Weller explains the Danish claim in the following paragraph...