The dead for the nation remembered

ON THURSDAY, the remains of 10 Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War were reburied with a mourning ceremony in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

More than six decades after they died on foreign soil, the soldiers have finally come home.

When China and the Republic of Korea negotiated on the issue in 2013, there were voices on social media platforms that doubted whether it was necessary to bring the remains of those who had died in the war home, saying the cost might be too high. Yet during the past years, with the remains of one soldier after another coming home, these doubts have been erased and there is consensus that the country should honor and pay tribute to them.