COPENHAGEN, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Denmark's prime minister said on Friday she and her Greenlandic counterpart had a constructive meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference over the semi-autonomous Danish territory.

The Republican senator's remark in Munich received swift backlash, being described as "disastrous disrespect" by one economist.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that Trump's recent push to seize control of Greenland is divisive even within his own party.

COPENHAGEN, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen plans to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference and discuss Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory,

It comes shortly after Trump announced a framework deal regarding the Arctic island and backed away from imposing tariffs on several European countries.

Canada and Denmark have signed a new defence co-operation agreement aimed at strengthening Arctic security amid lingering tensions over U.S. annexation threats toward Greenland. The pact enhances collaboration on surveillance and joint operations but does not go beyond existing NATO Article 5 commitments.

The uneasy relations between Denmark and the United States will manifest in, of all places, a hockey game on Saturday night.

Trump’s aggressive push to gain control of Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, has been met with intense backlash from Europe

More than 80 years later, Donald Trump invoked that moment at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In his speech on January 21, the US president claimed his country “gave Greenland back” to Denmark after the second world war. This history, Trump implied, still gives the US a claim to Greenland today.

Trump wants to buy the sparsely populated island, but officials in Denmark and Greenland have said it's not for sale. Public polling shows Greenlanders overwhelmingly oppose joining America.