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North Korea could impose demands in order for the U.S. to retrieve Travis King, Michael McCaul said Sunday House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul said Sunday that he's concerned North Korea will demand concessions from the United States in exchange for releasing American Travis King, the soldier who last week fled across the border from South Korea. "Is he defecting? I think he was running from his problems," McCaul, R-Texas, told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz, referencing King's pending discipline in the U.S. after being detained in South Korea for nearly two months following a local altercation. "That was the wrong place to go. But we see this with Russia, China, Iran -- when they take an American, particularly a soldier , captive, they exact a price for that," McCaul said. "And that's what I worry about." MORE: What we know about Travis King, the American soldier detained in North Korea Officials have ...

The State Department has yet to engage with foreign governments on the case. After a U.S. Army soldier launched international headlines by apparently intentionally crossing the border into North Korea on Tuesday, the Biden administration sent mixed signals on how far it might be willing to go to secure his release. "We're looking into this," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Mary Bruce, adding that President Joe Biden had been briefed on the matter and that U.S. officials were still gathering the facts. "The White House, the Department of Defense, the State Department, and also the U.N. are all working together to ascertain more information and resolve this situation," Jean-Pierre said. South Korean soldiers patrol while hikers visit the DMZ Peace Trail in the demilitarized zone in Goseong, South Korea on June 14, 2019. Ahn Young-Joon/AP MORE: Amid tensions with North Korea, US nuclear-capable subma...