North Korea has set in motion the delivery of 55 cases of possible remains of American service members who died in the Korean war. The cases are slated to arrive on Wednesday at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. It’s a fitting tribute that Vice President Mike Pence, the son of a Korean War combat veteran, will be on hand to participate in the Honorable Carry Ceremony and receive the remains as they return to American soil.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which searches for, recovers and identifies missing American war dead, has a state-of-the-art identification lab at Hickam where the bones likely will be laid out on examination tables for analysis.

Return of PAC ads, for better or worse

Expect to see a flurry of ads touting U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa over Gov. David Ige in the primary election. Be Change Now — a political action committee controlled by the Hawaii Regional Council of Carpenters, the state’s largest construction union — is spending another $300,000 in an effort to see Hanabusa win the Aug. 11 election. The super PAC has also spent more than $461,000 on commercials backing state Sen. Josh Green’s bid for the lieutenant governor’s post, according Hawaii Campaign Spending commission filings. Let’s hope the ads tagged for screening focus on issues voters care about, rather than negative personal attacks.