Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ was the son of K'ujaukitsoĸ K'ujaukitsoĸ and his wife Eĸilana . His grandfather was Inukitsupaluk K'ujaukitsoĸ ( 1890-1967 ) , who participated in expeditions by Robert Edwin Peary , Knud Rasmussen and Lauge Koch and was the son of K'ujaukitsoĸ and his wife Aimainalik . On 15 February 1970 , he married the economist Inger Kristiansen and the couple had one son , who had been Greenland Minister of Finance ( 2013 – 2014 ) and of Business , Labor , Trade and Foreign Affairs ( 2014 – 2017 ) . Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ went to school in Qaanaaq and was trained as a salesman in Aasiaat in 1964 . In 1966 he left Greenland to visit the commercial school in Ikast , Denmark . After a year he returned to Aasiaat , then to Qaanaaq , where he finally worked as a warehouse manager . He witnessed the crash of a B-52 near Thule Air Base in 1968 at a close range , which became his life-defining political issue along with the 1953 American expulsion from his birthplace for the construction of Thule Air Base . In 1971 he was first elected to the council of the community Qaanaaq , where he sat for many years , partly as vice mayor . From 1984 to 1995 he sat in Inatsisartut
crash of a B-52 near Thule Air Base
1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ