South Korea's new defence minister Kim Kwan-Jin has warned that his country will swiftly and strongly respond with force until North Korea surrenders if the communist state launches another assault. He said this today during his inauguration speech after President Lee Myung-Bak officially appointed the retired general as the new defence chief. He said if North Korea launches another military attack on their territory and people, they would swiftly and strongly respond with force and punish them thoroughly until they surrender. However he said South Korea does not want war, but it would never be afraid of war adding that South Korea faces the worst crisis since the Korean War.