The state-owned Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that Pyongyang accused Washington and its allies of “basely” shifting the entire responsibility for destroying the Kakhovka dam onto Moscow. It said Kim's regime was concerned about the humanitarian and material damage caused by the incident when the world was already apprehensive about the situation.

The state-media article, citing O Song-jin, a researcher at the North’s Institute of International Studies, compared the dam collapse to the case of “Nord Stream” blasts, in which recent reports have revealed that President Joe Biden-led administration knew of a detailed Ukrainian plan to sabotage the gas pipeline to Europe. 

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"The case of the collapsed Kakhovka dam is, after all, nothing but another farce…cooked up by the U.S. and Ukraine in cahoots to shift the blame for humanitarian disaster onto Russia and create a political and military environment favorable for the so-called counteroffensive operation of Ukraine," the researcher said.