KING OF THE EAST TESTFIRES MISSLES

North Korea has test fired 6 missles starting at about 4 Oclock today. Story and details later on.

1-Mumbai monsoon rains. 2-Minor quake in Beijing. 3-North Korea test fires 6 Missles.

LUKE 21:11,25-26
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Mumbai commuters wade knee-deep as monsoon rains lash city Tue Jul 4, 12:17 PM ET


MUMBAI (AFP) - Commuters in India's financial hub Mumbai have waded knee-deep through water to reach their offices as torrential monsoon rains disrupted rail and air links and forced schools to close. Municipal workers used shovels to clear clogged drains in the western city of 18 million people which has been pounded by heavy wind and rain since late Saturday.More than 40 domestic flights were cancelled and another 10 had to be diverted to other destinations,a government official said in New Delhi.Mumbai airport director R. J. Treasurywala said the facility had not suffered damage despite the bad weather and was still usable.

Due to rains there are delays, but there is no water-logging on the runway. Flights can land and take off from this airport, he said.Mumbai was swamped by 35.9 centimeters (14 inches) of rain on Tuesday alone, the weather bureau said, forecasting more heavy rainfall until at least the following day.

The rains have showed no signs of stopping, but our staff are working round-the-clock to lessen water-logging along the main water drains, city official Johny Joseph said.The finance industry was also hit by low attendance in banks, clearing institutions and stock exchanges in Mumbai, India's economic hub.The BSE, or Bombay Stock Exchange, clocked its lowest trading volumes this year of 20.56 billion rupees (446 million dollars).It's tough going. I saw knee-deep waters at my home in south-central Mumbai, said architect Neha Sharma, 27. This is the highest (water level) I've seen for years.Marginal power disruption was reported in some suburbs after India's main energy company, Reliance Energy, shut down three power stations as a precautionary measure.

High tide and constant rains were concerns. But now we've deployed 85 large pumps across low-lying areas to help reduce waterlogging, said chief state secretary D.K. Shankaran.We will take the help of NGOs, other emergency services and locals for round-the-clock relief operations, he said.The government said schools and colleges would remain closed Wednesday.

Despite the downpours, police have only reported four deaths from weather-related accidents in Mumbai so far.Two people died from short-circuits on Tuesday while two homeless people died late Monday in a Mumbai suburb after being crushed by a tree knocked down by gusting winds.The deaths brought to at least 229 the number of people to have died across the country as a result of the rains and high winds since the start of the monsoon last month.The rains, which advance across the country from the southern tip, have stirred memories in Mumbai of last July when more than 400 people were killed by flash floods in the city.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Minor quake hits Beijing, no injuries Tue Jul 4, 6:51 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - A minor earthquake shook the Chinese capital on Tuesday but there were no reports of damage or casualties and the state news agency urged residents to ignore rumors of further tremors hitting the city. China's seismological bureau said the epicenter of the quake, measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, was in Wenan county, Hebei province, 120 km (72 miles) south of Beijing. Office workers and commuters on Beijing's elevated expressways felt shaking but traffic continued to flow smoothly. Xinhua news agency said some office workers had fled their buildings to the street.The air-conditioner outside my window shook rapidly -- I didn't know what was happening, Sun Wenhao told Reuters from his 10th-floor office in downtown Tianjin, 90 km northeast of Wenan.

Government officials in Wenan said they had not received any reports of damage or casualties from the quake, which struck at 11:56 a.m. (0356 GMT).In the capital, radio quoted the government as saying the city did not expect any devastating earthquakes in coming days and asked citizens to stay calm.Xinhua quoted experts as saying the city was well geared to cope with a strong quake and that people should not listen to rumors of predictions of further tremors which have spread by text message and on the Internet.

China is hit by frequent earthquakes, with most hitting remote rural areas, but this month marks the 30th anniversary of a quake that killed at least 270,000 in Tangshan, east of Beijing.

DANIEL 11:44
44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

N. Korea Test-Fires Several Missiles
By Yonhapnews,{ 2006-07-05 09:48 ]

SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government confirmed Wednesday that North Korea test-fired several missiles, possibly including one long-range missile called the Taepodong-2, but said it was still trying to confirm details on the missiles.
President Roh Moo-hyun was briefed on the missile launches and he immediately called an emergency meeting of security-related ministers, Roh's aides said.The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae was about to announce its position on the issue.U.S. officials said their spy satellites detected five North Korean missile launches, adding that one missile, presumed to be a long-range Taepodong-2, failed within a minute after blast-off.South Korea's military intelligence said North Korea appeared to have fired more missiles.

North Korea fired a total of 10 missiles this morning, a military intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. The missiles include Scuds, Rodongs and Taepodongs.The United States was holding urgent consultations with other U.N. Security Council members after the launches, which came in defiance of strong warnings by the U.S. and Japan.Washington said it plans to send its top nuclear negotiator to Asia to discuss countermeasures.Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, the U.S. envoy to six-way talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, will travel to Asia as early Thursday, State Department spokesman Sean
McCormack said. The nuclear talks also involve South Korea, China, Russia and Japan.We are going to be consulting on diplomatic next steps. We are going to do that in capitals and up at the U.N. as well,he said. North Korea has not officially announced the launches.

We diplomats do not know what the (North Korean) military is doing, Han Song-ryol, deputy chief of the North's mission to the United Nations, was quoted as saying in a telephone interview with the Associated Press.Earlier, Japanese media reported that
North Korea test-fired at least three missiles early Wednesday morning that landed off the western coast of Japan.Pyongyang's move followed weeks of reports that it is preparing to launch a long-range Taepodong-2 that is believed to be capable of reaching the western U.S.The U.S. and Japan had warned that North Korea would face stern measures if it fired a missile in breach of its self-declared moratorium on missile testing in 1999.

Wednesday's missile test comes amid prolonged tensions over the North's nuclear weapons program, and it is likely to further complicate international efforts to resume the related six-party talks, as well as deal a blow to the burgeoning rapprochement between the two Koreas.North Korea declared last year that it succeeded in developing nuclear weapons.In Tokyo, a top Japanese official condemned the North's activity.It is regrettable, and we protest strongly against North Korea for going ahead with a launch despite warnings from relevant countries, including Japan, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said.