WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- Sen. Mitch McConnell issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following statement today:
"Arctic security matters. So does the strength of our alliances. These interests are not in conflict. They are inseparably linked.
"Close security cooperation between Americans, Danes, and Greenlanders is a tradition older than NATO, the most successful military alliance in human history. Through the Cold War and still today, cooperation with Arctic allies from Canada to the Nordics already grants the United States sweeping access to positions of strategic importance.
"Threats and intimidation by U.S. officials over American ownership of Greenland are as unseemly as they are counterpr...