By Soren Jeppesen and Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Friday she had agreed with NATO chief Mark Rutte that the alliance needs to boost security in the Arctic following weeks of turmoil over U.

President Donald Trump’s Wednesday speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland was filled with inaccurate claims – notably including false and misleading statements about NATO and Greenland, the self-governing Danish territory he is pushing for the US to acquire.

The drills are slated to get underway against a backdrop of uncertainty about the future of relations between the U.S. and its longstanding allies.

President Donald Trump has been condemned for remarks that belittle the efforts and losses of NATO troops during the war in Afghanistan. Trump told Fox News said that while NATO answered America's call to send troops to the country in the wake of the 9/11 attacks,

US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would “be there” if the United States “ever needed them,” claiming that the alliance’s troops “stayed a little back” from the frontlines in Afghanistan.