The US Vice President, , and his wife Usha Vance have arrived in Greenland for a controversial visit. The US government's Air Force 2 plane landed at the Pituffik Space Base in the north west of the country.

JD Vance told US troops at a military base: "I've never been to Greenland. Apparently I'm the first vice-president to ever visit Greenland. That's a pretty cool thing."

The trip had to be majorly scaled down after locals in Greenland, a Danish territory with a large degree of autonomy, .

Today's visit will focus on a US base in Pituffik, a town in northern Greenland. Ahead of the Vances' arrival, Greenlandic telecommunications operator Tusass said "all communication to Pituffik" were down. In a statement issued after noon, the organisation said: "The investigation has been initiated and we are trying to re-establish the connection as soon as possible." The communications were re-established shortly afterwards, with the company explaining the technical issue was due to a power outage at the town.

The decision to scale down the visit came after American officials were reportedly left scrambling to find someone willing to meet Mrs Vance in Greenland's capital Nuuk. Danish television station TV2 claimed the officials even went door-knocking to search people who wanted to meet the Second Lady, only to be told: "No, thank you". The visit comes amid increasingly concerning threats from the White House, with US President Donald Trump arguing in favour of the States taking over the territory for the sake of its national security.

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