There are no known official statistics of religions in North Korea. Officially, North Korea is an atheist state; the government, however, operates under the Juche political ideology, which contains aspects of what may be considered religious belief; it may therefore be considered North Korea's de facto state religion. Based on estimates from the late 1990s and the 2000s, North Korea is mostly irreligious, with the main religions being Korean shamanism and Chondoism. There are small communities of Buddhists and Christians. Chondoism is represented in politics by the Party of the Young Friends of the Heavenly Way, and is regarded by the government as Korea's "national religion" because of its identity as a minjung (popular) and "revolutionary anti-imperialist" movement.