Denmark's foreign minister has summoned the U.S. ambassador after President Donald Trump appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry the United States' special envoy to Greenland.

The Danish foreign minister says his country insists that everyone, including the United States, must respect “the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark.”

Earlier this month, the Danish Defense Intelligence Service said in an annual report that the U.S. is using its economic power to “assert its will” and threaten military force against friend and foe a...