American citizenship is probably the next choice, if just for extra State Department freebies. It's normal for troublesome countries to give more more security

American citizenship is probably the next choice, if just for extra State Department freebies. It's normal for troublesome countries to give more more security to journalists and other American citizens, and the US government rescues idiots stuck North Korea all the time. Most other countries wouldn't lift a finger for their citizens if that would have a significant monetary cost.