New Delhi, March 28 -- US Vice President JD Vance, his wife Usha Vance, and other senior US officials visited America's Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Friday, March 28.

"I've never been to Greenland. Apparently I'm the first vice-president to ever visit Greenland," said JD Vance, reported BBC.

According to news wire AP, the trip was scaled back following an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes, who were upset that the original itinerary had been planned without consulting them.

JD Vance's Greenland visit coincides with the formation of a new government in the semi-autonomous Danish territory, which excludes hardliners pushing for fast independence.

Greenland's new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, who won the March elections,...