https://www.foxnews.com/world/north-korea-biding-time-before-conducts-7th-nuclear-test-experts-say
“I think Kim has been holding off on a nuclear test because he wants to rub it into the U.S. and South Korea with a major Hwasong-17 ICBM test before escalating further with a nuclear test,” Sung-Yoon Lee, a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, told Fox News Digital.
Recalling the failure of imposing new U.N. Security Council resolutions even after the North tested ICBMs this year, Lee added that the North Korean leader “has nothing to lose by taking his time and continuing his strategy of graduated escalation before delivering his coup de grâce, a major nuclear test or even a series of tests.”