Blinken says Trump bid to take over Greenland is 'not a good one'

PARIS, Jan 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that incoming president Donald Trump's idea to make Greenland part of the United States was "not a good one".

Trump has refused to rule out force to take control of the Arctic island, which he has said the United States needs for national security reasons. Denmark, which formally controls Greenland, has said it will not become a U.S. state.

"The idea expressed about Greenland is obviously not a good one," Blinken told reporters at a press conference in Paris with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, adding that it was "obviously not going to happen".

(Reporting by Makini Brice and Simon Lewis; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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