"We strongly condemn this and North Korea's other recent missile tests, which violate UN Security Council resolutions explicitly prohibiting North Korea's launches using ballistic missile technology," Pentagon spokesman Commander Gary Ross said.
Was there a that between the words resolutions and explicitly?
Is the use of prohibiting instead of prohibit because he wants to emphasize that these resolutions have been made for a while now and yet North Korea keeps violating them?
Answer
The sentence quoted by the OP is correct grammatically.
According to grammar, you can reduce a defining relative clause when the relative pronoun is the subject of the relative clause. Look at the following sentence:
The man who works with you is a friend of mine.
In the sentence, "who works with you" is a defining relative clause. This clause can be reduced by omitting that and putting the verb in the present participle (-ing form) so it acts like an adjective, as follows:
The man working with you is a friend of mine.
Likewise, the relative clause that explicitly prohibit has been reduced to explicitly prohibiting.
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